{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/licensing-act-2003-hearings-regulations-2005/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/licensing-act-2003-hearings-regulations-2005/regulation-9.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/44",
  "legislation_title": "The Licensing Act 2003 (Hearings) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/licensing-act-2003-hearings-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Right to dispense with hearing if all parties agree",
  "text": "(1) An authority may dispense with holding a hearing if all persons required by the Act to agree that such a hearing is unnecessary, other than the authority itself, have done so by giving notice to the authority that they consider a hearing to be unnecessary.\n(2) Where all the persons required by the Act to agree that a hearing is unnecessary have done so in accordance with paragraph (1), the authority, if it agrees that a hearing is unnecessary, must forthwith give notice to the parties that the hearing has been dispensed with.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 9 in force at 7.2.2005, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/44/regulation/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:11:50.236848+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."
}