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Rule 71.3 | Protest Room

Part 5 — Protests, Redress, Hearings, Misconduct And Appeals

Section D — Appeals

71.3

The national authority may:

(a) uphold, change or reverse the protest committee’s decision (including a decision on validity or a decision under rule 69),
(b) order that the hearing be reopened, or
(c) order that a new hearing be held by the same protest committee or by a new protest committee (which may be appointed by the national authority).

Preferred Wordings

Reopening Following Appeal Decision (RRS 71.3)
[The hearing was reopened] [A new hearing was held] after being ordered by the national authority under RRS 71.3 [(b)] [(c)].

Rule 71.2

The national authority shall accept the facts found by the protest committee unless rule R5 applies.

Rule 71.4

If the national authority orders a hearing to be reopened, it may limit the scope of the reopened hearing to such issues as it considers appropriate.