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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pitcairn-constitution-order-2010/schedule-2/paragraph-51",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2010/244",
  "legislation_title": "The Pitcairn Constitution Order 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pitcairn-constitution-order-2010",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/51",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "51",
  "heading": "Practice and procedure on appeals",
  "text": "(1) Subject to this Constitution, the President of the Court of Appeal may make rules for regulating the practice and procedure of the Court of Appeal with respect to appeals from the courts of Pitcairn and, in connection with such appeals, for regulating the practice and procedure in any court of Pitcairn from which such appeals are brought.\n(2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), rules of court may be made for the following purposes—\n(a) for regulating the sittings of the Court of Appeal, whether in divisions or otherwise, and the selection of judges for any purpose;\n(b) for regulating the right of practising before the Court of Appeal and the representation of persons concerned in any proceedings in the Court;\n(c) for prescribing cases in which, and conditions on which, an appellant in a criminal appeal to the Court of Appeal shall be entitled to be present at the hearing of the appeal;\n(d) for providing for the summary determination of any appeal which appears to the Court of Appeal to be frivolous or vexatious or to be brought for the purposes of delay;\n(e) for prescribing the forms and fees in respect of proceedings in the Court of Appeal and regulating the costs of and incidental to any such proceedings;\n(f) for prescribing and regulating the powers and duties of registrars and officers of the Court of Appeal;\n(g) for prescribing the time within which any requirement of the rules is to be complied with;\n(h) for providing for a reference to the Court of Appeal from a decision of a single judge.\n(3) Rules made under this section may fix the number of judges of the Court of Appeal who may sit for any purpose; but—\n(a) an uneven number shall sit, which, for the purposes of any final determination by the Court other than the summary dismissal of an appeal, shall not be fewer than three; and\n(b) any determination by the Court on any matter (whether final or otherwise) shall, where more than one judge sits, be according to the opinion of a majority of the judges who sit for the purpose of determining that matter.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/244/schedule/2/paragraph/51",
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  },
  "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."
}