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Regulation 15 Notification of hearingI1

Northern Ireland

(1)

The supervising member shall ensure that at least 28 days in advance the member concerned is notified of the time, date and place of the hearing.

(2)

In a case to which this paragraph applies the hearing may, if the supervising member considers it appropriate in the circumstances, take place before the expiry of the 28 days referred to in paragraph (1).

(3)

Paragraph (2) applies where the member concerned is given a written notice under regulation 13(1) of a decision to refer the case to a hearing and—

(a)

at the time he receives such a notice he is detained in pursuance of the sentence of a court in a prison or other institution to which the Prison Act (Northern Ireland) 1953f1 applies, or has received a suspended sentence of imprisonment, and

(b)

having been supplied under regulation 13 with the documents therein mentioned does not elect under regulation 16 to be legally represented at the hearing.

Annotations

Commencement

I1

Reg. 15 in operation at 6.11.2000, see reg. 1

Footnotes

f1

1953 c. 18 as modified by S.I. 1973/2163