The Education Tribunal for Wales Regulations 2021

Irregularities

73.—(1) An irregularity resulting from failure to comply with any provision of these Regulations, a practice direction(1) or of any direction of the President or the tribunal panel before the tribunal panel has reached its decision may not of itself render the proceedings void.

(2) Where any such irregularity comes to the attention of the tribunal panel, the tribunal panel may, if it considers that any person may have been prejudiced by the irregularity, give such directions as it thinks just, before reaching its decision to remedy the irregularity.

(3) Clerical mistakes in any document recording a direction or decision of the tribunal panel or a direction or decision of the President produced by or on behalf of the Tribunal or errors arising in such documents from accidental slips or omissions may at any time be corrected by the Chair or the President (as the case may be) by certificate signed by the Chair or the President.

(4) The Secretary of the Tribunal must as soon as practicable send a copy of any corrected document containing reasons for the tribunal panel’s decision, to each party.

(5) Where a person has appointed a representative in accordance with regulation 16, the Secretary of the Tribunal must (notwithstanding regulation 13(11)(a)) send a copy of the document referred to in paragraph (4) to the person as well as the representative.

(6) Where these Regulations require the Chair to sign a document, but by reason of death or incapacity the Chair is unable to do so, the other members of the tribunal panel must sign it and certify that the Chair is unable to sign.

(1)

See section 61(2) of the Wales Act 2017 (c. 4) for powers to make practice directions.