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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tribunals-courts-and-enforcement-act-2007-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-order-2008/schedule-1/paragraph-161",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2008/2683",
  "legislation_title": "The Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tribunals-courts-and-enforcement-act-2007-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-order-2008",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/161",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "161",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In regulation 19 (late appeals)—\n(a) omit paragraphs (1) to (4);\n(b) for paragraph (5) substitute—\n“(5) Where a dispute arises as to whether an appeal was brought within the time specified under Tribunal Procedure Rules the dispute shall be referred to, and determined by, the First-tier Tribunal.\n(5A) The relevant authority may treat a late appeal as made in time in accordance with Tribunal Procedure Rules if the relevant authority is satisfied that it is in the interests of justice.”;\n(c) in paragraph (6)—\n(i) for “(5)(b)” substitute “(5)”;\n(ii) for “grant an application unless the panel member or the relevant authority, as the case may be” substitute “treat the appeal as made in time unless the relevant authority”;\n(iii) in sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) omit “to the application”; and\n(iv) for “appeal to be made” to the end substitute “appeal notice to be submitted in accordance with Tribunal Procedure Rules.”;\n(d) in paragraph (7) for “applicant”, in each place, substitute “appellant”;\n(e) in paragraph (8)—\n(i) for “grant the application” substitute “treat the appeal as made in time”; and\n(ii) for the words “within which” to the end, substitute “limit under Tribunal Procedure Rules and the submission of the notice of appeal, the more compelling should be the special circumstances.”;\n(f) in paragraph (9)—\n(i) for “grant an application” substitute “treat the appeal as made in time”;\n(ii) in sub-paragraph (a) for “these Regulations” substitute “Tribunal Procedure Rules”; and\n(iii) in sub-paragraph (b) for “a Commissioner” substitute “the Upper Tribunal”; and\n(g) omit paragraphs (10) to (12).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 161 in force at 3.11.2008, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:23:31.503247+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."
}