{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-compensation-board-determinations-and-review-procedure-regulations-1997/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-compensation-board-determinations-and-review-procedure-regulations-1997/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/724",
  "legislation_title": "The Pensions Compensation Board (Determinations and Review Procedure) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-compensation-board-determinations-and-review-procedure-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Procedure at oral hearings",
  "text": "(1) The Board shall conduct the oral hearing in such manner as they consider most suitable to the clarification of the issues before them, and generally as to the just handling of the proceedings.\n(2) The applicant and any other person entitled to be heard shall, subject to paragraph (3), be entitled to give evidence, call witnesses, to question any witnesses and to address the Board both on evidence and generally on the subject matter of the hearing.\n(3) The Board may receive evidence of any fact which appears to them to be relevant even if such evidence would be inadmissible in proceedings before a court of law, but shall not refuse to admit any evidence which is admissible at law and is relevant.\n(4) The Board may, if they are satisfied that it is just and reasonable to do so, permit the applicant to rely on grounds for the compensation claim which were not set out in the application, whether or not amended.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/724/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:21:51.496627+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."
}