---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 C.F.R. § 20.1003"
title: "38"
number: "20.1003"
heading: "Rule 1003. Hearings on reconsideration."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/38/20.1003"
---

# §20.1003. Rule 1003. Hearings on reconsideration.


After a motion for reconsideration has been allowed, a hearing will be granted if the issue under reconsideration was considered on a docket for cases that may include a hearing, and an appellant requests a hearing before the Board. The hearing will be held by a Member or Members assigned to the reconsideration panel. A hearing will not normally be scheduled solely for the purpose of receiving argument by a representative. Such argument should be submitted in the form of a written brief. Requests for appearances by representatives alone to personally present argument to a Member or panel of Members of the Board may be granted if good cause is shown. Whether good cause has been shown will be determined by the presiding Member.


## Notes

### Amendments

[61 FR 20453, May 7, 1996, as amended at 84 FR 191, Jan. 18, 2019]

### Authority

Authority: 38 U.S.C. 501(a) and as noted in specific sections.

### Source

Source: 57 FR 4109, Feb. 3, 1992, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[61 FR 20453, May 7, 1996, as amended at 84 FR 191, Jan. 18, 2019]