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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tribunal-procedure-first-tier-tribunal-property-chamber-rules-2013/article-8",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2013/1169",
  "legislation_title": "The Tribunal Procedure (First-tier Tribunal) (Property Chamber) Rules 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tribunal-procedure-first-tier-tribunal-property-chamber-rules-2013",
  "path": "article/8",
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  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Failure to comply with rules, practice directions or Tribunal directions",
  "text": "(1) An irregularity resulting from a failure to comply with any provision of these Rules, a practice direction or a direction does not of itself render void the proceedings or any step taken in the proceedings.\n(2) If a party has failed to comply with a requirement in these Rules, a practice direction or a direction, the Tribunal may take such action as the Tribunal considers just, which may include—\n(a) waiving the requirement;\n(b) requiring the failure to be remedied;\n(c) exercising its power under rule 9 (striking out a party's case);\n(d) exercising its power under paragraph (5); or\n(e) barring or restricting a party's participation in the proceedings.\n(3) In land registration cases, the action that the Tribunal may take includes—\n(a) where the party who failed to comply was the person who made (or has been substituted for or added to the party who made) the original application, directing the registrar to cancel the original application in whole or in part;\n(b) where the party who failed to comply was an objector to (or was substituted for or added as an objector to) the original application, directing the registrar to give effect to that application in whole or in part as if that objection had not been made.\n(4) In land registration cases, the Tribunal must, if the action taken does not include either of the requirements referred to in paragraph (3), send written notice to the parties of the Tribunal's decision as to what action is taken (if any) and give any consequential directions.\n(5) The Tribunal may refer to the Upper Tribunal, and ask the Upper Tribunal to exercise its power under section 25 of the 2007 Act in relation to, any failure by a person to comply with a requirement imposed by the Tribunal—\n(a) to attend at any place for the purpose of giving evidence;\n(b) otherwise to make themselves available to give evidence;\n(c) to swear an oath in connection with the giving of evidence;\n(d) to give evidence as a witness;\n(e) to produce a document; or\n(f) to facilitate the inspection of a document or any other thing (including any premises).",
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  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/1169/article/8",
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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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