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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clergy-discipline-appeal-rules-2005/article-25",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clergy-discipline-appeal-rules-2005/article-25.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/3201",
  "legislation_title": "The Clergy Discipline Appeal Rules 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clergy-discipline-appeal-rules-2005",
  "path": "article/25",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "Appeal normally to be heard in public",
  "text": "The hearing shall be in public, but at any stage the appellate court may sit in private and may exclude any person or persons if satisfied that to do so—\n(a) is desirable to protect the private life of any person, or\n(b) is desirable to protect the interests of any child, or\n(c) is otherwise in the interests of the administration of justice.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/3201/article/25",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:45:12.929879+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."
}