The re-arranged hearing which is set to take place over three days - today, Wednesday and Friday - follows Lord Nimmo Smith's independent inquiry which led to the SFA bringing the charges but is likely to be truncated after Whyte told the ruling body yesterday that there is "not a chance" that he will attend or be represented.

The Ibrox club is charged with five offences, including failing to abide by SFA regulations over the 'fit and proper person's test', and Whyte, ruled unfit by the SFA to be a club official, with two more.

The SFA adjourned the original hearing on March 29 after Whyte's lawyers asked for more time to prepare a case but the Motherwell-based businessman failed to attend a procedural hearing on April 6 which was set for him to "lodge a substantive response and for representations to be made as to state of preparation".

Whyte refuses to recognise the SFA's authority and yesterday he told Press Association Sport: "The SFA is a farcical organisation. The whole thing is a farce. I will absolutely play no part in it and I will have no representation at Hampden.

"I will have more to say about it all in the next couple of days."