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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-discipline-prescribed-procedures-regulations-2006/regulation-24",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2006/676",
  "legislation_title": "The Judicial Discipline (Prescribed Procedures) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-discipline-prescribed-procedures-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/24",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Evidence and representations",
  "text": "(1) The investigating judge must invite the subject of the disciplinary proceedings to give evidence and make representations about the case.\n(2) The investigating judge may invite the complainant or any person who he considers can assist his investigation to give evidence about the case.\n(3) Evidence and representations must be provided to the investigating judge within ten business days of the invitation under paragraphs (1) and (2).\n(4) The investigating judge may take oral evidence if he considers it necessary to do so.\n(5) The investigating judge must arrange for any evidence given orally to be recorded in a transcript or a tape recording.\n(6) The investigating judge must disclose any evidence obtained under paragraph (2) to the subject of the disciplinary proceedings and must invite him to make representations on the evidence.\n(7) The subject of the disciplinary proceedings must make any representations under paragraph (6) within ten business days of the invitation under paragraph (6).\n(8) Where the investigating judge considers that it is necessary to disclose evidence obtained during the course of an investigation to any person other than the subject of the disciplinary proceedings, he must first invite—\n(a) the person who provided the evidence, and\n(b) the subject of the disciplinary proceedings\nto make representations about the proposed disclosure.\n(9) The person who provided the evidence and the subject of the disciplinary proceedings must make representations under paragraph (8) within ten business days of the invitation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/676/regulation/24",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:34:34.513449+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}