The Valuation Appeal Committee (Procedure in Appeals under the Valuation Acts) (Scotland) Regulations 1995

Arrangements at hearing

9.—(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 shall consider at the commencement of each sitting any representations from parties as to the order of that sitting’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 postponement or adjournment of a hearing made by a party; and

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

and, if it thinks fit, postpone or adjourn the hearing.

(4) In any case where a hearing has been postponed or adjourned before it has commenced, the new date set for the hearing shall, for the purposes of regulations 4(1) and (4), 7(1), 8(1) and (4), 10(1) and (5) and 12(1), be deemed to be the date set for the hearing.