{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-teaching-council-for-wales-disciplinary-functions-regulations-2001/regulation-14",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2001/1424",
  "legislation_title": "The General Teaching Council for Wales (Disciplinary Functions) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-teaching-council-for-wales-disciplinary-functions-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/14",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Requirement for hearings to be held in public",
  "text": "(1) A Committee shall announce their determination of the outcome of all hearings in public and subject to paragraphs (2) and (3) all hearings of a Committee shall take place in public.\n(2) A Committee may deliberate in private at anytime and for any purpose during or after a hearing.\n(3) A Committee may exclude the public from a hearing or any part of a hearing—\n(a) where it appears to them necessary in the interests of justice to exclude the public;\n(b) where the registered teacher against whom disciplinary proceedings are being taken makes a written request that the hearing should be in private, and the Committee do not consider it to be contrary to the public interest to hold the hearing in private; or\n(c) where it is necessary to protect the interests of children.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2001/1424/regulation/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:17:10.413891+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."
}