The Homeowner Housing Panel (Applications and Decisions) (Scotland) Regulations 2012

Evidence

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11.—(1) The committee may, for the purposes of making inquiries, require the property factor, the homeowner or any other person—

(a)to attend a hearing of the committee, at such time and place as the committee may specify, for the purposes of giving evidence;

(b)to give the committee, by such day as they may specify, such documents or information as they may reasonably require.

(2) Paragraph (1) does not authorise the committee to require any person to answer any question or to disclose anything which the person would be entitled to refuse to answer or disclose on grounds of confidentiality in civil proceedings in the Court of Session.

(3) Where the committee have set time limits for the lodging and serving of written evidence, they must not consider any written evidence which is not lodged or served in accordance with those time limits unless satisfied that there is good reason to do so.

(4) Where a party seeks to rely upon a copy of a document as evidence, the committee may require the original document to be produced.