{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clergy-conduct-rules-2026/rule-54",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clergy-conduct-rules-2026/rule-54.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2026/882",
  "legislation_title": "The Clergy Conduct Rules 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clergy-conduct-rules-2026",
  "path": "rule/54",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "54",
  "heading": "Conduct of hearings: general",
  "text": "(1) The tribunal or court to which a complaint of serious misconduct is referred must, in accordance with the overriding objective—\n(a) set a timetable for the hearing of the complaint,\n(b) decide whether or to what extent the hearing is to be held electronically, digitally or virtually, and\n(c) conduct the hearing in the manner it considers most appropriate, having due regard to the issues before it.\n(2) The registrar of tribunals must give directions for the time, date and place of each session of the hearing (including, in a case where the hearing is to any extent to be held in a manner referred to in paragraph (1)(b), instructions on how to join and participate in the hearing).\n(3) The hearing in its entirety must be recorded by audio, audio-visual or other electronic means.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/882/rule/54",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:56:54.526438+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."
}