{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/asylum-support-appeals-procedure-rules-2000/article-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/asylum-support-appeals-procedure-rules-2000/article-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/541",
  "legislation_title": "The Asylum Support Appeals (Procedure) Rules 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/asylum-support-appeals-procedure-rules-2000",
  "path": "article/12",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Exclusion of public",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of this rule, oral hearings are to take place in public.\n(2) Subject to the provisions of paragraph (3), the adjudicator may exclude a member of the public or members of the public generally from a hearing or from part of a hearing if, and to the extent that, he considers it necessary to do so in the public interest.\n(3) But nothing in this rule is to prevent a member of the Council on Tribunals, a member of the Scottish Committee of that Council, the Chief Asylum Support Adjudicator or the Deputy Chief Asylum Support Adjudicator, in their capacity as such, from attending an oral hearing.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/2008/2683",
      "affecting_title": "The Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Order 2008"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/541/article/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:19:42.219311+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}