18.17 (1) Subject to subsection (1.1), the Court shall fix a date for the hearing of an appeal referred to in section 18 that is not later than one hundred and eighty days or, where the Court is of the opinion that it would be impracticable in the circumstances to fix a date for the hearing of the appeal within that period, three hundred and sixty-five days after the last day on which the Minister of National Revenue must file a reply to the notice of appeal pursuant to subsection 18.16(1) or (3).

(1.1) The Court may, in exceptional circumstances, fix a date for the hearing of an appeal referred to in section 18 at any time after the periods referred to in subsection (1).

(2) The Court may grant a request by a party to have an appeal heard after the date referred to in subsection (1) where the other parties consent thereto or where it would be appropriate to delay the hearing of the appeal until judgment has been rendered in another case before the Court or any other court in Canada in which the issue is the same or substantially the same as that raised in the appeal.

R.S., 1985, c. 51 (4th Supp.), s. 5; 1993, c. 27, s. 219.