Paragraph 15 Hearing and adjournment

Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), any hearing before the Committee must be held in public.

If it appears to the Committee to be appropriate in the interests of any child or for the protection of the private life of any party or in the interests of justice, the Committee may direct that the public are to be excluded from the whole or part of the proceedings.

Subject to paragraph 3 of Schedule 4 to the Act^f1 and any Rules made under that paragraph, the Committee may at any time and for any purpose during or after a hearing deliberate in private, with or without the Legal Assessor.

The Committee may adjourn the hearing of any proceedings from time to time as they think fit.