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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-council-interim-orders-committee-procedure-rules-order-of-council-2000/schedule/paragraph-10",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2000/2053",
  "legislation_title": "The General Medical Council (Interim Orders Committee) (Procedure) Rules Order of Council 2000",
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  "path": "schedule/paragraph/10",
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  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Public and private hearings",
  "text": "(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), initial hearings and review hearings shall be held in private.\n(2) Initial hearings and review hearings shall be held in public whenever the practitioner so requests.\n(3) Notwithstanding the practitioner’s request that a hearing be held in public, the Committee may direct that, while any information relating to the medical history or condition of any person is being given to the Committee, all persons who are not concerned with the hearing shall withdraw from the hearing.\n(4) In this paragraph, a person is not concerned with the hearing if he is not—\n(a) a member of the Committee or the legal assessor;\n(b) the practitioner, the person representing him or his medical adviser;\n(c) a person giving oral evidence to the Committee;\n(d) a person acting as secretary to the Committee;\n(e) a shorthand writer appointed under rule 14(1); or\n(f) a person with leave of the Chairman of the Committee to remain at the hearing.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/2053/schedule/paragraph/10",
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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."
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