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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lands-tribunal-rules-1996/article-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lands-tribunal-rules-1996/article-17.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1022",
  "legislation_title": "The Lands Tribunal Rules 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lands-tribunal-rules-1996",
  "path": "article/17",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Order without hearing etc",
  "text": "(1) If it appears to the President that, having regard to the applicant’s interest in the land, the applicant is not a proper person to make the application, he may dismiss it and shall inform the applicant of his reasons for doing so.\n(2) Where—\n(a) the registrar receives no notice of objection within the time allowed by rule 15(1), or\n(b) all objectors have withdrawn their objections before a hearing has taken place,\nthe President may, with the consent of the applicant, determine the application without a hearing.\n(3) Where at or after a hearing—\n(a) all objectors withdraw their objections, or\n(b) the Tribunal directs that no objector shall be admitted to oppose the application,\nthe Tribunal may, with the consent of the applicant, determine the application without any further hearing.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1022/article/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:45:38.824501+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."
}