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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/review-tribunal-amendment-no-2-rules-northern-ireland-2019/article-19",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2019/202",
  "legislation_title": "The Review Tribunal (Amendment No. 2) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/review-tribunal-amendment-no-2-rules-northern-ireland-2019",
  "path": "article/19",
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  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Amendment of the 1986 Rules",
  "text": "After rule 19 of the 1986 Rules insert:—\n“PART IIIA\nDETERMINATION OF THE APPLICATION OR REFERRAL ON THE PAPERS\n19A. (1) An application under section 80 or 83(2) of the Act or an application or a referral made in relation to another detained person’s case may be determined by the tribunal on the papers.\n(2) The application or referral shall not be determined by the tribunal on the papers and shall instead be dealt with by an oral hearing if the tribunal so directs or there is an objection to the matter being dealt with on the papers by a party to the proceedings.\n(3) The tribunal shall give at least 14 days’ notice of the date and time for the determination on the papers to all the parties.\n(4) At any time before the application or referral is determined, the tribunal or any one or more of its members may interview the person to whom the application or referral relates in private, and shall interview him or her if he or she requests, and the interview may, and shall if the person so requests, take place in the absence of any other person.\n(5) At any time before the determination by the tribunal on the papers, the medical member or, where the tribunal includes more than one, at least one of them may examine the person to whom the application or referral relates and take such other steps as he or she considers necessary to form an opinion of the person’s medical condition; and for this purpose the person may be seen in private and all his or her medical records may be examined by the medical member, who may take such notes and copies as required, for use in connection with the application.\n(6) At any time before the application or referral is determined, the tribunal may call for such further information or reports as it may think desirable, and may give directions as to the manner in which and the persons by whom such material is to be furnished.\n(7) At any time during which the tribunal is considering the proceedings on the papers, it may direct that the proceedings are instead to be dealt with by an oral hearing.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2019/202/article/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:45:30.212677+00:00"
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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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