{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-user-charging-schemes-penalty-charges-adjudication-and-enforcement-england-regulations-2013/schedule/paragraph-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-user-charging-schemes-penalty-charges-adjudication-and-enforcement-england-regulations-2013/schedule/paragraph-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/1783",
  "legislation_title": "The Road User Charging Schemes (Penalty Charges, Adjudication and Enforcement) (England) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-user-charging-schemes-penalty-charges-adjudication-and-enforcement-england-regulations-2013",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Disposing of an appeal without a hearing",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the following provisions of this paragraph, the adjudicator may dispose of an appeal without a hearing.\n(2) The adjudicator must not dispose of an appeal without a hearing if, in the adjudicator’s opinion, the appeal raises issues of public importance such as to require that a hearing be held.\n(3) The adjudicator must not dispose of an appeal without a hearing if either party has requested a hearing unless—\n(a) the party who made the request withdraws it before notice of a hearing has been served on the other party under paragraph 7;\n(b) both parties have subsequently consented to the appeal being disposed of without a hearing; or\n(c) the party requesting the hearing having been served with a notice of the hearing of an appeal under paragraph 7, fails to attend or be represented at the hearing.\n(4) Where the adjudicator is minded to dispose of an appeal without a hearing, the appeal must not be disposed of unless and until either—\n(a) there has elapsed a period of 28 days beginning with the date on which an acknowledgement is served in accordance with paragraph 3(1)(a) during which neither party has requested a hearing; or\n(b) both parties have consented to its disposal without a hearing.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 6 in force at 2.9.2013, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/1783/schedule/paragraph/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:47:32.346144+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."
}