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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/licensed-conveyancers-discipline-and-appeals-committee-procedure-rules-approval-order-2001/schedule/paragraph-31",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/2797",
  "legislation_title": "The Licensed Conveyancers' Discipline and Appeals Committee (Procedure) Rules Approval Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/licensed-conveyancers-discipline-and-appeals-committee-procedure-rules-approval-order-2001",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/31",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Applications for removal of licence disqualification or for further licence or recognition following revocation for fraud",
  "text": "(1) Where an application is made under—\n(a) section 27(1) (application for removal of disqualification from holding a licence),\n(b) section 28(2) (application for a licence after previous licence has been revoked on the ground of fraud), or\n(c) paragraph 7(2) of Schedule 6 (application for grant of recognition after previous recognition has been revoked on the ground of fraud),\nthe Committee must hold a hearing to determine the application.\n(2) Such a hearing must be conducted in accordance with the following procedure.\n(3) The hearing must be opened by the Council providing the Committee with a summary of their previous findings and order.\n(4) Then the applicant may adduce evidence in support of the application, and then the Council may cross-examine the applicant and any witness called on his behalf.\n(5) At the conclusion of the case for the applicant the Council may adduce evidence in response and the applicant may then cross-examine any witness called on behalf of the Council.\n(6) At any stage of the hearing, the Chairman or, with his leave, any other member of the Committee or the Legal Assessor may examine any party or witness.\n(7) At the conclusion of the evidence the applicant may address the Committee, and then the Council may address the Committee, but no further submissions are permitted, unless the Chairman allows them.\n(8) The provisions of rules 8 to 21 have effect in the case of an application within paragraph (1), subject to such modifications as the Chairman or the Committee consider appropriate in the case of such an application.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/2797/schedule/paragraph/31",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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