The Council Tax (Alteration of Lists and Appeals) (Scotland) Regulations 1993

Arrangements at hearing

32.—(1) The hearing shall be in public unless the committee with reasonable cause otherwise decides, but nothing in these Regulations shall prevent a member of the Council on Tribunals or of its Scottish Committee from attending any hearing in that capacity.

(2) The committee may at its discretion consider on the day of the hearing representations from parties as to the order of that day’s list of appeal cases, and may thereafter alter that order.

(3) The committee may at its discretion—

(a) at any time postpone or adjourn a hearing, giving parties such intimation as it considers reasonable; or

(b) consider—

(i) any request for adjournment of a hearing made by a party; and

(ii) representations by any other party as to that request;

and, if it thinks fit, adjourn the hearing.

(4) In any case where a hearing has been adjourned before it has commenced, the date set for the adjourned hearing shall, for the purposes of regulation 28(2), be deemed to be the date set for the hearing.