{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/traffic-management-proceedings-before-adjudicators-regulations-northern-ireland-2006/regulation-7",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2006/421",
  "legislation_title": "The Traffic Management (Proceedings before Adjudicators) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/traffic-management-proceedings-before-adjudicators-regulations-northern-ireland-2006",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Disposing of an appeal without a hearing",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the adjudicator may dispose of an appeal without a hearing.\n(2) The adjudicator shall not dispose of an appeal without a hearing if either party has requested a hearing unless—\n(a) the party who made the request withdraws his request before notice of a hearing has been sent to the other party under regulation 8; or\n(b) both parties have subsequently consented to the appeal being disposed of without a hearing.\n(3) The adjudicator shall not dispose of an appeal without a hearing until after the expiration of 4 weeks beginning on the day an acknowledgement is sent in accordance with regulation 4 unless both parties consent to the disposal taking place on an earlier date.\n(4) Notwithstanding anything in paragraphs (2) and (3), if both parties, having been sent a notice of the hearing of an appeal in accordance with regulation 8, fail to attend or be represented at the hearing, the adjudicator may subsequently dispose of the appeal without a hearing.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2006/421/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:44:37.038716+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."
}