{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reserve-forces-appeal-tribunals-rules-1997/article-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reserve-forces-appeal-tribunals-rules-1997/article-19.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/798",
  "legislation_title": "The Reserve Forces Appeal Tribunals Rules 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reserve-forces-appeal-tribunals-rules-1997",
  "path": "article/19",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Notice of place and time of hearing, and adjournments",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary shall, with due regard to the urgency of the appeal and the convenience of the parties, fix the time and place of the hearing and, not less than 5 days before the date so fixed (or such shorter time as the parties agree), send to each party a notice of the hearing at such time and place.\n(2) The Secretary shall include in or with the notice of hearing—\n(a) information and guidance as to attendance at the hearing of the parties and witnesses, the bringing of documents, and the right of representation by another person;\n(b) an explanation of the right of the parties to ask for and to receive reasons in writing for any determination;\n(c) an explanation of the possible consequences of non-attendance and of the right of a party who does not attend and is not represented to make representations in writing.\n(3) If a party does not intend to attend or be represented at the hearing, he may send to the Secretary additional written representations in support of his case.\n(4) The Tribunal may alter the time and place of any hearing and the Secretary shall give the parties not less than 5 days’ (or such shorter time as the parties agree) notice of any such alteration:\nProvided that any altered hearing date shall not (unless the parties agree) be before the date notified under paragraph (1).\n(5) The Tribunal may from time to time, on the application of a party or on its own initiative, adjourn the hearing and, if the time and place of the adjourned hearing are announced before the adjournment, no further notice shall be required.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/798/article/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:21:03.552955+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."
}