Where person directed to attend is absent from hearing
32.—(1)  Where a person who is directed by the adjustment relief assessor to attend before the adjustment relief assessor for a hearing under regulation 30(3) is absent from the hearing, the adjustment relief assessor may —
(a)deem that the person has withdrawn the notice lodged by that person; or
(b)hear the proceedings and make a determination.
(2)  A decision or determination made under paragraph (1) may, on an application by the person mentioned in paragraph (1), be set aside by the adjustment relief assessor or another adjustment relief assessor if that adjustment relief assessor is satisfied that the person had a good reason for being absent from the hearing, and that it is just in the circumstances to set aside the decision or determination made in that person’s absence.
(3)  An application under paragraph (2) must —
(a)be in Form 13; and
(b)be submitted to the adjustment relief Registrar, and served on the parties to a determination concerned (but not on the person that submitted the application) by the prescribed mode of service, no later than 5 working days after the date of the adjustment relief assessor’s decision or determination made under paragraph (1) is sent to the parties to the determination or such longer period as the adjustment relief Registrar may allow.
(4)  Any party to a determination that wishes to oppose the application for setting aside must, within a period directed by the adjustment relief Registrar, submit to the adjustment relief Registrar and serve on the person that submitted the application under paragraph (2), and every other party to the determination, by the prescribed mode of service, a reply in Form 14.
(5)  Where an adjustment relief assessor hearing the application decides to set aside the decision or determination made under paragraph (1) —
(a)he or she may do so on such terms as he or she considers just; and
(b)he or she may proceed to hear the parties to the determination and make the determination in relation to the specified contract.