{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patronage-appeals-rules-1988/article-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patronage-appeals-rules-1988/article-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1980",
  "legislation_title": "Patronage (Appeals) Rules 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patronage-appeals-rules-1988",
  "path": "article/12",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Directions for hearing",
  "text": "(1) After the expiration of a period of fourteen days from the final date for serving or lodging of any further pleadings or lodging of documents under the preceding rules and any orders made thereunder, the registrar shall lay before the chancellor copies of the paragraph 7 notice, the pleadings and all other documents which are relevant to the appeal.\n(2) The chancellor shall appoint a time and place for the hearing of the appeal and shall give such further directions as he thinks fit.\n(3) (a) At any time before or at the hearing of the appeal any party may apply to the chancellor (or, if the application is made before the hearing of the appeal and the registrar has been authorised by the chancellor to determine such applications, to the registrar) for a postponement or adjournment of the hearing, and on any such application the chancellor or the registrar may postpone or adjourn the hearing of the appeal to such date as he may specify.\n(b) The chancellor may at any time, of his own motion, postpone or adjourn the hearing of the appeal to such date as he may specify.\n(4) The registrar shall serve on each party copies of all orders and directions made or given under paragraphs (2) and (3) of this rule.\n(5) The registrar shall serve on each party, each interested person and each other person directed to attend or to produce a document at the hearing of the appeal under paragraph (1)(b) or (c) of rule 11–\n(a) not less than twenty-one days' notice of the time and place appointed for the hearing of the appeal under paragraph (2) of this rule; and\n(b) notice of any later date specified for the hearing of the appeal under paragraph (3) of this rule.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1980/article/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:54:59.002697+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."
}