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23.—(1) If the conditions specified in paragraph (2) are satisfied, the Presenting Officer may apply to the Fitness to Practise Committee at a procedural hearing for a direction that one substantive hearing may be held in relation to two or more registrants.
(2) The conditions are that—
(a)all reasonable efforts have been made to notify each registrant of the application referred to in paragraph (1); and
(b)each registrant is offered an opportunity to be heard on the application at the procedural hearing.
(3) At the procedural hearing, the Fitness to Practise Committee may, where it considers it just to do so, direct that one hearing be held in relation to two or more registrants and where such direction is made—
(a)these Rules are to have effect in relation to the hearing with the necessary adaptations; and
(b)each registrant is to be able to exercise any of the rights granted to that registrant under these rules, whether or not any other registrant wishes to exercise that right.
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