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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-regulator-tribunal-rules-2005/article-19",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/690",
  "legislation_title": "The Pensions Regulator Tribunal Rules 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-regulator-tribunal-rules-2005",
  "path": "article/19",
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  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Preliminary hearing",
  "text": "(1) The Tribunal may direct that any question of fact or law which appears to be in issue in relation to the reference be determined at a preliminary hearing.\n(2) If, in the opinion of the Tribunal, the determination of that question substantially disposes of the reference, the Tribunal may treat the preliminary hearing as the hearing of the reference and may make such order by way of disposing of the reference as it thinks fit.\n(3) If the parties so agree in writing, the Tribunal may determine the question without an oral hearing, but, in any such case, the Tribunal may not at the same time dispose of the reference unless the parties have agreed in writing that it may do so.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/2010/22",
      "affecting_title": "The Transfer of Tribunal Functions Order 2010"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/690/article/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:04:01.280530+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."
}