Singapore legislation
Regulation 16
Regulation 16
Consolidation
Subregulation 1
Where 2 or more appeal proceedings are pending in relation to the same decision of the Authority, or involve the same or similar facts or issues, an Appeal Advisory Committee for any of those appeal proceedings (called in this regulation the specified appeal proceedings) may at any time, on the application of a party to the specified appeal proceedings or on its own initiative, order that the proceedings or any particular issue raised in the proceedings be consolidated or heard together.
Subregulation 2
Before making an order under paragraph (1), the Appeal Advisory Committee for the specified appeal proceedings must —
invite all the parties to the specified appeal proceedings and all of the other proceedings to make their submissions and, if the Committee deems necessary, invite all the parties to appear before and be heard by the Committee in relation to the consolidation; and
ensure that all the submissions of all the parties mentioned in sub‑paragraph (a) are provided to the Appeal Advisory Committee of every one of the other proceedings.
Subregulation 3
The Appeal Advisory Committee for the specified appeal proceedings must not make an order under paragraph (1) unless every Appeal Advisory Committee of each of the other proceedings agrees to the making of the order.
Subregulation 4
If the Appeal Advisory Committees for all the appeal proceedings are unable to reach a unanimous decision, the matter must be referred to the Minister for decision.
Subregulation 5
Where an order under paragraph (1) or a decision under paragraph (4) is made for any appeal proceedings or issues to be consolidated or heard together —
the Appeal Advisory Committee for the specified appeal proceedings has conduct of the consolidated appeal proceedings, or the appeal proceedings in which the issues are to be heard, as the case may be (each called in this paragraph the combined proceedings);
the Appeal Advisory Committee for the specified appeal proceedings may give any directions under regulation 18 for the proper administration of the combined proceedings;
subject to any direction mentioned in sub‑paragraph (b), the time limit specified in these Regulations for the doing of anything by a party for the purposes of any of the appeal proceedings that have been consolidated continues to apply to the doing of that thing by that party for the purposes of the combined proceedings;
where any appeal proceedings are consolidated with the specified appeal proceedings, the Appeal Advisory Committee for the appeal proceedings that are consolidated with the specified appeal proceedings dissolves on the date of the order or decision; and
where any issues originally raised in any one or more appeal proceedings are to be heard together by the Appeal Advisory Committee for the specified appeal proceedings —
the Appeal Advisory Committee for the specified appeal proceedings must —
inform the Appeal Advisory Committee of every one of the other proceedings of its recommendations on the issues that are heard together; and
in its report to the Minister under regulation 31 for the specified appeal proceedings, state its recommendations on the issues that are heard together and on any other issues in the specified appeal proceedings; and
the Appeal Advisory Committee for each of the other proceedings —
is bound by the recommendations made by the Appeal Advisory Committee for the specified appeal proceedings on the issues that are heard together and must not consider or make any recommendations on those issues;
may proceed with the other proceedings either concurrently with or after the combined proceedings; and
must, in its report to the Minister under regulation 31 for the other proceedings —
(CA)state the recommendations of the Appeal Advisory Committee for the specified appeal proceedings on the issues that are heard together; and
(CB)state its recommendations on the other issues in the other proceedings, after considering, where relevant, the recommendations of the Appeal Advisory Committee for the specified appeal proceedings on the issues that are heard together.