Article 12 Hearings in public or in private

(1)

The Tribunal shall conduct its investigation in private and, save to the extent that these rules provide for the hearing of oral representations or for the taking of oral evidence and the applicant, or if there is more than one applicant, all the applicants, request that any such representations or evidence shall be heard or taken in public, no person other than —

(a)

those specified in rule 10; or

(b)

any person who has or could have requested the Tribunal to join its investigation of the matter in question with an investigation of a matter which he has required to be referred to it; or

(c)

any person who could have requested the Tribunal to join its investigation of the matter in question with an investigation of a matter which he could have required to be referred to it; or

(d)

a person having the leave of the Tribunal

shall be entitled to be present when any such representation is heard or evidence taken.

(2)

Nothing in this rule shall prevent a member of the Council on Tribunals or of its Scottish Committee from attending, in his capacity as such a member, any hearing at which any oral representation is made or any oral evidence is taken.