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s 42Review of awards and orders

(1)

Except where a party has filed an application for leave to appeal and does not agree to withdraw the application, an adjudicator may, within 14 days from the date of an award or order given or made by him, review the award or order and on such review may re-open and re-hear the claim wholly or in part and may call or hear fresh evidence and may confirm, vary or reverse his previous award or order.

(2)

The power conferred by subsection (1) may be exercised —

(a)

by an adjudicator of his own motion, by notice in the prescribed form to all parties;

(b)

on the application of a party within 7 days, by notice in the prescribed form to all parties.

(3)

The exercise of the power conferred by subsection (1) shall not operate as a bar to an appeal by a party against the award or order.

(4)

On the application of a party for a review under this section, the adjudicator, having regard to the possibility of assets which may be available to satisfy an award being disposed of to the prejudice of any party,

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may make such order regarding payment into the tribunal, giving of security or otherwise as he may think fit.