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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-adjudication-regulations-northern-ireland-1995/regulation-42",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1995/293",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Adjudication) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-adjudication-regulations-northern-ireland-1995",
  "path": "regulation/42",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "42",
  "heading": "Procedure of a medical appeal tribunal on receipt of a Commissioner’s decision",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), the provisions of these Regulations apply for the disposal by a medical appeal tribunal of a case remitted to it following an appeal to a Commissioner as if it were an original hearing of an appeal to the medical appeal tribunal.\n(2) Where, on appeal from a medical appeal tribunal to him, the Commissioner has decided that the decision of the medical appeal tribunal is not erroneous in point of law, the medical appeal tribunal need not hold a hearing for the purpose of confirming its decision.\n(3) Where the case is remitted to the medical appeal tribunal following an appeal to a Commissioner in which it was decided that the decision of the medical appeal tribunal was erroneous in point of law, the proceedings shall, subject to any direction of the Commissioner, be by way of a complete rehearing of the appeal by persons who were not members of the tribunal which gave the erroneous decision.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/1996/24",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Adjudication) and Child Support (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1995/293/regulation/42",
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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."
}