{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clergy-discipline-rules-2005/rule-102A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clergy-discipline-rules-2005/rule-102A.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/2022",
  "legislation_title": "The Clergy Discipline Rules 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/clergy-discipline-rules-2005",
  "path": "rule/102A",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "102A",
  "heading": "Powers of the President",
  "text": "(1) Where any application, appeal or request is made to the President under these rules, the President—\n(a) may give directions for the just disposal of the application, appeal or request in accordance with the overriding objective, and\n(b) may hold a hearing, and if so shall give notice of the hearing to the parties and any other person whom the President considers should be notified.\n(1A) The President may, on the President’s own initiative, give directions for the just disposal of an application, appeal or request in accordance with the overriding objective.\n(2) Any hearing under paragraph (1)(b) shall be in private except where—\n(a) the President is satisfied that it is in the interests of justice to have a hearing in public, or\n(b) the respondent so requests,\nin which case the President shall direct that the hearing shall be in public, but during any part of the proceedings the President may exclude such person or persons as the President may determine.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Rule 102A inserted (1.2.2014) by The Clergy Discipline (Amendment) Rules 2013 (S.I. 2013/1917), rules 28, 37(2); 2014 No. 2, s. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Rule 102A(1A) inserted (13.7.2021) by The Clergy Discipline (Amendment) Rules 2021 (S.I. 2021/557), rules 1(2), 11"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in Rules substituted (13.7.2021) by The Clergy Discipline (Amendment) Rules 2021 (S.I. 2021/557), rules 1(2), 14(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Rule 102A title inserted (13.7.2021) by The Clergy Discipline (Amendment) Rules 2021 (S.I. 2021/557), rules 1(2), 11"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2022/rule/102A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:44:24.173514+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."
}