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Regulation 15 Failure to deliver a statement of case and absence of opposition

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

If the Secretary of the Tribunal does not receive a statement of case from the Authority within the case statement period or if the authority states in writing that it does not resist the appeal, or withdraws its opposition to the appeal, the tribunal shall—

(a)

determine the appeal on the basis of the notice of appeal without a hearing; or

(b)

without notifying the authority hold a hearing at which the authority is not represented.

(2)

Where the parent’s appeal relates to the contents of the child’s statement, no statement that the authority does not resist the appeal or that it withdraws its opposition shall take effect until the authority sends the Tribunal a written statement of the amendments (if any) to the statement which it agrees to make.