SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 5 Adjudicators
Procedure
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1
Regulations may make provision as to the procedure to be followed in connection with the reference, under this Part or Part III of this Act F1or under Part 2 of the Education and Inspections Act 2006, of matters to adjudicators and their determination of matters so referred.
2
The regulations may, in particular, make provision—
a
as to the manner in which matters may be referred to adjudicators;
b
for determining the adjudicators to which individual referrals are to be made;
c
authorising adjudicators to hold local inquiries;
d
as to the procedure to be followed where local inquiries are held by adjudicators (whether by virtue of paragraph (c) or otherwise);
e
authorising adjudicators to appoint assessors to sit with them at such inquiries to advise them on matters arising;
f
requiring anything falling to be done under the regulations to be done within such period as may be specified in or determined in accordance with the regulations.
3
Subject to any provision made by the regulations, an adjudicator may regulate his own procedure.
4
The Secretary of State may make orders—
a
as to the costs of the parties at any local inquiry held by an adjudicator (whether by virtue of sub-paragraph (2)(c) or otherwise), and
b
as to the parties by whom the costs are to be paid;
and any costs payable under any such order shall be subject to taxation in such manner as the Secretary of State may direct.