Hearings on appeal held at Department of Veterans Affairs field facilities will be scheduled for each area served by a regional office in accordance with the place of each case on the Board's docket, established under Sec. 20.900 of this chapter, relative to other cases for which hearings are scheduled to be held within that area. Such scheduling is subject to Sec. 20.704(f) of this chapter pertaining to advancement of a case on the hearing docket. (Authority: 38 U.S.C. 7107) [65 FR 14471, Mar. 17, 2000]