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  "legislation_title": "The Employment Tribunals (Constitution and Rules of Procedure) Regulations 2004",
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  "heading": "Serving of documents by the Secretary",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary shall not send a copy of the response or grounds for the response to any person excluded from all or part of the proceedings by virtue of a direction or order given or made under rule 54.\n(2) Where a Minister of the Crown has informed the Secretary in accordance with rule 54(3) that he wishes to address the tribunal or chairman with a view to an order being made under rule 54(2)(a) to exclude the claimant’s representative from all or part of the proceedings, the Secretary shall not at any time before the tribunal or chairman has considered the Minister’s representations, send a copy of the response or the grounds for the response to any person who may be excluded from all or part of the proceedings by such an order if it were made.",
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