{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charity-tribunal-rules-2008/rule-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charity-tribunal-rules-2008/rule-15.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/221",
  "legislation_title": "The Charity Tribunal Rules 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/charity-tribunal-rules-2008",
  "path": "rule/15",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Exceptions to disclosure",
  "text": "(1) A party is not required to allow for the inspection of any document in a list under these Rules where inspection could not be compelled in a civil trial in England or Wales.\n(2) A party who can establish a ground in paragraph (3) may make a request to the Tribunal, without giving notice to any other party, for a direction under rule 3 (directions) authorising that party not to include a document in the list, or not to allow for the inspection of a document in the list, required by rule 18(4)(a) (Commission’s response), 19(3) (appellant’s reply) or 20(1) (secondary disclosure by Commission).\n(3) A party making a request under paragraph (2) must state in that request that a document should not be included or inspected on the ground that it—\n(a) would not be in the public interest;\n(b) may be prejudicial to national security; or\n(c) would not be fair having regard to the potential prejudice which may be caused to the legitimate interests of an appellant or a person other than an appellant.\n(4) For the purpose of deciding a request by a party under paragraph (2), the Tribunal may—\n(a) require that the document be produced to the Tribunal together with a statement of the reasons why it should not be included on a list or inspected as the case may be; and\n(b) without disclosing the document, invite any other person to make representations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/221/rule/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:37:15.907447+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."
}