The Code on Social Security (Gujarat) Rules, 2023
Rule 51. Procedure in connected cases
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(1) Where two or more cases pending before a Competent Authority arise out of the same accident, and any issue involve is common to two or more such cases, such cases may, so far as ithe evidence hearing on such issue is concerned, be heard simultaneously.
(2). Where the procedure specified in sub-rule (1) is followed, the evidence bearing on a common issue shall be recorded in the proceedings of one case, and the Competent Authority shall certify under his hand in the proceedings of any other such case, the extent to which the evidence so recorded applies 1o such other case, and the fact that the parties to -' such other case had the opportunity of being present, and, if they were present, of cross examining the witnesses.