---
kind: "section"
citation: "29 C.F.R. § 1921.9"
title: "29"
number: "1921.9"
heading: "Prehearing conferences."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/29/1921.9"
---

# §1921.9. Prehearing conferences.

- (a) Upon his own motion or the motion of the parties, the hearing examiner may direct the parties or their counsel to meet with him for a conference to consider:
  - (1) Simplification of the issues;
  - (2) Necessity or desirability of amendments to pleadings for purposes of clarification, simplification, or limitation;
  - (3) Stipulations, admissions of fact and of contents and authenticity of documents;
  - (4) Limitation of the number of expert witnesses; and
  - (5) Such other matters as may tend to expedite the disposition of the proceeding.
- (b) The record shall show the matters disposed of by order and by agreement in such pretrial conferences. The subsequent course of the proceeding shall be controlled by such action.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: Sec. 41, Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act (33 U.S.C. 941); 5 U.S.C. 301.

### Source

Source: 27 FR 4165, May 2, 1962, unless otherwise noted. Redesignated at 28 FR 7909, Aug. 2, 1963, and further redesignated at 36 FR 25232, Dec. 31, 1971.