Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 36, September 7, 2024
(a) This subchapter governs the practice and procedures before the respective Board of Judges and the Board of Stewards of the Commission.(b) This subchapter shall be liberally construed to secure the just, speedy and inexpensive determination of every action or proceeding to which it is applicable. Judges and Stewards may disregard an error or defect of procedure which does not affect the substantive rights of the parties, especially when the proceeding is related to a pro se licensee.(c) This subchapter is intended to supersede the applicability of 1 Pa. Code Part II (relating to General Rules of Administrative Practice and Procedure) to practice and procedures before the Judges/Stewards.(d) Subsection (b) supersedes 1 Pa. Code §31.2 (relating to liberal construction).