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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-appeals-tribunals-scotland-rules-1996/article-17",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1644",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Appeals Tribunals (Scotland) Rules 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-appeals-tribunals-scotland-rules-1996",
  "path": "article/17",
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  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Irregularities",
  "text": "(1) Any irregularity resulting from failure to comply with any provision of these Rules or of any direction of the tribunal before it has reached its decision shall not of itself render the proceedings void.\n(2) Where any such irregularity comes to the attention of the tribunal, it may, and shall if it considers that a party may have been prejudiced by that irregularity, give such directions to cure or waive the irregularity as it thinks just before reaching its decision.\n(3) Clerical mistakes in any document recording a direction or decision of the chairman or of the tribunal, or errors arising in such a document from an accidental slip or omission, may be corrected by the chairman by certificate under his hand.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "ssi/2013/63",
      "affecting_title": "The Police Appeals Tribunals (Scotland) Rules 2013"
    }
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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."
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