APPENDIX 1 REGULATION 18 (d) for cases involving a citing the procedures in (c)(ii) and (iii) above shall be applied, subject to such modification as the Judicial Committee or Judicial Officer deems appropriate; (e) evidence from the Player or Person if he elects to give evidence, and from any witnesses to be called will be heard; and (f) final submissions will be heard. 3.10 For cases involving citing complaints initiated by a Citing Commissioner, Misconduct or other breaches of the Regulations, the Judicial Committee Chairman or Judicial Officer may request that a person be available to present the case and set out the basis of the citing complaint, Misconduct or other charges. 3.11 The Player or Person subject to disciplinary proceedings may admit the offence at any time in which case the Judicial Committee or Judicial Officer should proceed immediately to hear submissions in relation to sanction. 3.12 Where disciplinary proceedings, however arising, are taken against more than one Player or Person as a result of incidents occurring in a Match or arising from the same incident or series of incidents, such proceedings may be heard by a Judicial Committee or Judicial Officer at the same time, provided there is no prejudice to any person against whom the disciplinary proceedings are taken. 3.13 Upon the finding of a breach of the Bye-Laws and/or Regulations Judicial Committees and Judicial Officers shall be entitled to impose such penalties and orders as they think fit which may include the penalties and orders set out in Regulation 18.6.1. 4. Appeal Committees and Appeal Officers – Power to regulate their own procedures 4.1 The Appeal Committee or Appeal Officer are entitled to receive and shall be provided with the full record of the proceedings before the Judicial Committee or Judicial Officer. 4.2 An Appeal Committee or Appeal Officer shall have power to conduct and regulate the appeal proceedings as it sees fit having regard to the circumstances of the case but shall generally conform to the procedures stated in this Regulation 18, Appendix 1. 4.3 The Appeal Committee or Appeal Officer shall have the power to order that a de novo hearing in whole or in part be adopted on appeal. A de novo hearing in whole or in part would ordinarily only be appropriate where it is established that it is in the interests of justice that a re-hearing of the case in whole or in part is necessary. In the case of an appeal which proceeds in whole as a de novo hearing the procedure to be adopted, the burden of proof and all evidential and other matters shall proceed as if the hearing was a first instance hearing before a Judicial Committee or Judicial Officer. Last update: 14 January, 2015 292
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