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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-chiropractic-council-health-appeal-tribunal-rules-order-2000/schedule/paragraph-9",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2000/3214",
  "legislation_title": "The General Chiropractic Council (Health Appeal Tribunal) Rules Order 2000",
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  "path": "schedule/paragraph/9",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Hearing to be in public",
  "text": "(1) Subject to Rules 7(1) and 10(5) and (6), and to the following provisions of this Rule, the hearing shall take place in the presence of the parties or their representatives and in public.\n(2) The Tribunal may, if satisfied that it would be in the interests of the person making the allegation, or of any person giving evidence or of any patient, or if of the view that the evidence in question relates to matters properly to be treated as confidential between the appellant and a medical practitioner, determine that the public should be excluded from being present in any part of the proceedings.\n(3) The Tribunal may deliberate together in the absence of the parties and their representatives and of the public at any time.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2011/2085",
      "affecting_title": "The Postal Services Act 2011 (Consequential Modifications and Amendments) Order 2011"
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/3214/schedule/paragraph/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:09:31.632815+00:00"
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  "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."
}