The First-tier Tribunal for Scotland Housing and Property Chamber (Procedure) Regulations 2017 No. 328

SCHEDULE The First-tier Tribunal for Scotland Housing and Property Chamber Rules of Procedure 2017

PART 1 Rules common to all proceedings before the First-tier Tribunal

Powers of the First-tier Tribunal to require production of evidence

21.—(1) The First-tier Tribunal may require any person—

(a) to attend a hearing of the First-tier Tribunal at such time and place as the First-tier Tribunal may specify for the purposes of giving evidence; and

(b) to give the First-tier Tribunal, by such day as it may specify, such documents or information as it may reasonably require.

(2) Paragraph (1) does not authorise the First-tier Tribunal 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 a court in Scotland.

(3) Where the First-tier Tribunal has set time limits for the lodging and serving of written evidence under rule 22(1), it 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 First-tier Tribunal may require the original document to be produced.