{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-adjudication-amendment-regulations-1994/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-adjudication-amendment-regulations-1994/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/1082",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Adjudication) Amendment Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-adjudication-amendment-regulations-1994",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Social Security (Adjudication) Regulations 1986 as follows–\n(a) regulation 1 (interpretation) is amended so that any person who is eligible to be nominated as a chairman of a tribunal may exercise a chairman’s powers;\n(b) regulation 5 (postponement) is amended to enable a chairman to postpone a hearing of his own motion;\n(c) regulation 7 (striking–out of proceedings for want of prosecution) is amended to prevent the re–instatement of an appeal more than 12 months after it is struck out;\n(d) Schedule 2 (time limits for making references) is amended by the provision of a 3 month time limit for the Secretary of State to refer to an adjudication officer a decision which ought to be considered by a medical appeal tribunal.\nThese Regulations do not impose a charge on business.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/1082/note",
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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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