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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hearing-aid-council-disciplinary-proceedings-legal-assessor-rules-1971/article-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1971/755",
  "legislation_title": "The Hearing Aid Council (Disciplinary Proceedings) Legal Assessor Rules 1971",
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  "number": "5",
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  "text": "The advice of the Legal Assessor shall be tendered to the Committee in the presence of every party, or person representing a party, to the proceedings who appears thereat:\nProvided that, if, in the case of any question referred by the Committee to the Legal Assessor while the Committee are deliberating in private, the Committee consider that it would be prejudicial to the discharge of their duties for the advice to be tendered in the presence of the said parties or their representatives, it may be tendered in their absence, but the Legal Assessor shall, as soon as may be, personally inform them of the question which has been put to him by the Committee and of his advice thereon, and his advice shall subsequently be put in writing and a copy thereof shall be available to every such party or representative.",
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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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