Regulation 18

Where 2 or more appeals are pending in relation to the same decision of the Agency, or involve the same or similar issues, the appeal authority may at any time, on the request of a party to any of the appeals or on the appeal authority’s own initiative, direct that the appeals or any particular issue or matter raised in the appeals be consolidated, and be heard and decided or determined together.

All the parties to the appeals are entitled to make their submissions on the proposed consolidation before a direction under paragraph (1) is made.