1708                                          LAWS OF MARYLAND                                     Ch. 139

allow an appeal from such decision on application filed within
such time by any party entitled to notice of such decision. An
appeal filed by any such party shall be allowed as of right if
the examiner's determination was not affirmed by the [referee]
ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGE HEARING EXAMINER. Upon review on its
own motion or upon appeal, the Board of Appeals may on the basis
of the evidence previously submitted in such case, or upon the
basis of such evidence as it may direct be taken, affirm, modify
or reverse the findings and conclusions of the [referee]
ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGE HEARING EXAMINER or special examiner.
The Board of Appeals may remove to itself or transfer to another

[referee] ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGE HEARING EXAMINER the

proceedings on any pending claim. Any proceeding so removed or
appealed to the Board of Appeals shall be heard by a quorum
thereof. The Board of Appeals shall promptly notify the parties
to any proceeding before it of its decision, including its
findings and conclusions in support thereof, and such decision
shall be final within ten days after the mailing of notice
thereof to the party's last known address or, in the absence of
such mailing, within ten days after the delivery of such notice,
and judicial review thereof shall be permitted the claimant or
any interested party claiming to be aggrieved thereby as provided
in subsection (h) of this section: Provided, however, that upon
denial by the Board of Appeals of an application for appeal from
the decision of [a referee] AN ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGE A HEARING
EXAMINER or determination of a special examiner, such decision or
determination shall be deemed to be the decision of the Board of
Appeals within the meaning of this subsection for the purposes of
judicial review and shall be subject to judicial review within
the time and in the manner provided for with respect to decisions
of the Board of Appeals, except that the time for initiating such
review shall run from the date of notice of the order of the
Board of Appeals denying the application for appeal.

(g) The Board of Appeals, [referee] ADMINISTRATIVE LAW
JUDGE HEARING EXAMINER and special examiners shall not be bound
by common-law or statutory rules of evidence or by technical
rules of procedure, but any such hearing or appeal shall be
conducted in such manner as to ascertain the substantial rights
of the parties. The Board of Appeals shall adopt reasonable
regulations governing the manner of filing appeals and the
conduct of hearings and appeals, consistent with the provisions
of this article. When the same or substantially similar evidence
is relevant and material to the matters in issue in claims by
more than one individual or in claims by a single individual with
respect to two or more weeks of unemployment, the same time and
place for considering each such claim may be fixed, hearings
thereon jointly conducted, a single record of the proceedings
made, and evidence introduced with respect to one proceeding
considered as introduced in the others, provided that in the
judgment of the examiner, special examiner, [referee]
ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGE HEARING EXAMINER or Board of Appeals
having jurisdiction of the proceeding, such consolidation would
not be prejudicial to any party. No person shall participate on
behalf of the Board of Appeals in any case in which he has a