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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1998-commencement-no-12-and-consequential-and-transitional-provisions-order-1999/schedule-21/paragraph-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/3178",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security Act 1998 (Commencement No. 12 and Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1998-commencement-no-12-and-consequential-and-transitional-provisions-order-1999",
  "path": "schedule/21/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Notwithstanding regulation 39 and Chapter III of Part V of the Regulations, this paragraph applies where a direction (“the direction\") was given under regulation 4(1) of the 1997 Regulations.\n(2) An appeal tribunal shall hold an oral hearing of an appeal if–\n(a) sub-paragraph (3) below applies; or\n(b) the chairman or, in the case of an appeal tribunal which has only one member, that member, is satisfied that such a hearing is necessary to enable the tribunal to reach a decision.\n(3) This sub-paragraph applies where a notification that a party to the proceedings wishes an oral hearing to be held is received by a clerk to a medical appeal tribunal before 29th November 1999 or by a clerk to an appeal tribunal (notwithstanding that it was sent to a clerk to a medical appeal tribunal) after that date within–\n(a) 10 days of receipt by that party of the direction; or\n(b) such other period as–\n(i) the clerk to, or the chairman of, the medical appeal tribunal may have directed; or\n(ii) where head (i) above does not apply, a clerk to an appeal tribunal may direct.\n(4) An appeal tribunal shall determine an appeal without an oral hearing where sub-paragraph (2) does not apply.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/3178/schedule/21/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:34:16.806054+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."
}