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[Subsidiary]
Further information. Disclosure of official documents and information, Notice of date of hearing. Schedule. Notice of inability to appear. Adjournment of hearing.
CAP. 199] Royal Hong Kong Regiment (Pensions) [1973 Ed. Regulations
(a) the Statement of the Case;
(b) the appellant's answer and documentary evidence (if any);
(c) the comments (if any) made by the Board on the appellant's answer.
20. The Tribunal may at any time require the appellant or the Board to supply such further information and documents in his or its possession or under his or its control relating to the appeal as the Tribunal thinks fit.
21. (1) Where for the purposes of his appeal an appellant desires to have disclosed any document which he has reason to believe is in the possession of the Regiment or a Government department, he may, at any time not later than 28 days after the Statement of the Case is sent to him, apply to the chairman for the disclosure of the document and, if the chairman considers that the document is likely to be relevant to the appeal, he may give a direction to the Commanding Officer or the department concerned requiring its disclosure in such manner and upon such terms and conditions as the chairman may think fit.
(2) Where it appears to the Tribunal that any document is likely to be relevant to the appeal, and that the appellant has reasonable excuse for having failed to make an application for disclosure under paragraph (1), the Tribunal may, unless the document is produced by the Board's representative, adjourn the case for the application to be made.
22. (1) The chairman shall fix a day for the hearing of an appeal and the secretary shall give notice thereof to the appellant and the Board.
(2) The notice to the appellant under paragraph (1) shall be in Form 1 in the Schedule.
(3) There shall be such period of not less than 28 days between the service of the notice under paragraph (1) and the day fixed therein for the hearing as the chairman may direct.
23. If, at any time before the day fixed for the hearing, the appellant becomes aware of any circumstances which will prevent him from attending the Tribunal on the day so fixed, he shall (unless the appeal is to be heard in his absence under regulation 38) immediately notify the secretary of his inability to appear, stating the reasons therefor.
24. (1) The chairman may on his own motion, or upon the application of any party to an appeal, adjourn an appeal to such date as he thinks fit.