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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tribunal-procedure-first-tier-tribunal-social-entitlement-chamber-rules-2008/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2008/2685",
  "legislation_title": "The Tribunal Procedure (First-tier Tribunal) (Social Entitlement Chamber) Rules 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tribunal-procedure-first-tier-tribunal-social-entitlement-chamber-rules-2008",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement, application and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Rules may be cited as the Tribunal Procedure (First-tier Tribunal) (Social Entitlement Chamber) Rules 2008 and come into force on 3rd November 2008.\n(2) These Rules apply to proceedings before the Social Entitlement Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal.\n(3) In these Rules—\n“the 2007 Act” means the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007;\n“appeal” includes an application under section 19(9) of the Tax Credits Act 2002 ;\n“appellant” means a person who makes an appeal to the Tribunal, or a person substituted as an appellant under rule 9(1) (substitution of parties);\n“asylum support case” means proceedings concerning the provision of support for an asylum seeker, a failed asylum seeker or a person designated under section 130 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 (designation), or the dependants of any such person;\n“criminal injuries compensation case” means proceedings concerning the payment of compensation under a scheme made under the Criminal Injuries Compensation Act 1995 or section 47 of the Crime and Security Act 2010;\n“decision maker” means the maker of a decision against which an appeal has been brought;\n“dispose of proceedings” includes, unless indicated otherwise, disposing of a part of the proceedings;\n“document” means anything in which information is recorded in any form, and an obligation under these Rules to provide or allow access to a document or a copy of a document for any purpose means, unless the Tribunal directs otherwise, an obligation to provide or allow access to such document or copy in a legible form or in a form which can be readily made into a legible form;\n“hearing” means an oral hearing and includes a hearing conducted in whole or in part by video link, telephone or other means of instantaneous two-way electronic communication;\n“legal representative” means a person who, for the purposes of the Legal Services Act 2007, is an authorised person in relation to an activity which constitutes the exercise of a right of audience or the conduct of litigation within the meaning of that Act, an advocate or solicitor in Scotland or a barrister or solicitor in Northern Ireland;\n“party” means—\n(a)a person who is an appellant or respondent in proceedings before the Tribunal;\n(b)a person who makes a reference to the Tribunal under section 28D of the Child Support Act 1991 ;\n(c)a person who starts proceedings before the Tribunal under paragraph 3 of Schedule 2 to the Tax Credits Act 2002; or\n(d)if the proceedings have been concluded, a person who was a party under paragraph (a), (b) or (c) when the Tribunal finally disposed of all issues in the proceedings;\n“practice direction” means a direction given under section 23 of the 2007 Act;\n“respondent” means—\n(a)in an appeal against a decision, the decision maker and any person other than the appellant who had a right of appeal against the decision;\n(b)in a reference under section 28D of the Child Support Act 1991—\n(i)the absent parent or non-resident parent;\n(ii)the person with care; and\n(iii)in Scotland, the child if the child made the application for a departure direction or a variation;\n(c)in proceedings under paragraph 3 of Schedule 2 to the Tax Credits Act 2002, a person on whom it is proposed that a penalty be imposed; ...\n(cc)an affected party within the meaning of section 61(5) of the Childcare Payments Act 2014, other than an appellant; or\n(d)a person substituted or added as a respondent under rule 9 (substitution and addition of parties);\n...\n“social security and child support case” means any case allocated to the Social Entitlement Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal except an asylum support case or a criminal injuries compensation case;\n“Tribunal” means the First-tier Tribunal.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Rule 1(2) substituted (29.11.2010) by The Tribunal Procedure (Amendment No. 3) Rules 2010 (S.I. 2010/2653), rules 1, 5(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in rule 1(3) substituted (1.4.2009) by Tribunal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2009 (S.I. 2009/274), rules 1, 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in rule 1(3) inserted (8.4.2013) by The Tribunal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2013 (S.I. 2013/477), rules 1(2)(c), 23"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in rule 1(3) substituted (18.1.2010) by The Tribunal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2010 (No. 43), rules 1, 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word in rule 1(3) omitted (21.8.2015) by S.I. 2015/1510, rules 1, 12"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in rule 1(3) inserted (21.8.2015) by S.I. 2015/1510, rules 1, 12"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in rule 1(3) omitted (1.4.2011) by virtue of The Tribunal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2011 (S.I. 2011/651), rules 1(2)(a), 4(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in rule 1(3) inserted (1.4.2011) by The Tribunal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2011 (S.I. 2011/651), rules 1(2)(a), 4(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "2002 c.21."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1995 c.53."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1991 c.48. Section 28D was inserted by section 4 of the Child Support Act 1995 (c.34)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}