{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-service-committees-and-tribunal-regulations-1992/schedule-4/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-service-committees-and-tribunal-regulations-1992/schedule-4/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/664",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Service Committees and Tribunal) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-service-committees-and-tribunal-regulations-1992",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Attendance at hearing",
  "text": "(1) ... The hearing before the discipline committee shall be in private, and no person shall be admitted to it unless he is a person specified in sub-paragraph (2).\n(2) The persons specified for the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) are—\n(a) subject to sub-paragraph (3), no more than one member or officer of the appropriate Health Authority or Primary Care Trust and the practitioner;\n(b) any person permitted under sub-paragraph (3) to accompany a party;\n(c) not more than one person who is a member or officer of the relevant local representative committee for the area of the appropriate Health Authority or Primary Care Trust and who is authorised by that committee to attend the hearing on its behalf as an observer only;\n(d) subject to sub-paragraph (5), any person whose attendance is required for the purpose of giving evidence to the discipline committee;\n(e) not more than two officers of the Health Authority or Primary Care Trust which has appointed the discipline committee, who have been authorised by that Health Authority or Primary Care Trust to attend for the purpose of assisting the discipline committee in the discharge of its functions;\n(f) where the parties all consent, and the discipline committee considers it appropriate, any other person.\n(3) Subject to sub-paragraph (4), a party may be accompanied at the hearing by one other person who may assist him in the presentation of his case, but, if that other person is a barrister or solicitor, he shall not address the committee or put questions to witnesses.\n(4) No officer or member of any Health Authority or Primary Care Trust or of any of its committees referred to in regulation 3(1) shall be permitted to accompany the practitioner.\n(5) Any person permitted to attend the hearing under sub-paragraph (2)(d) for the purpose of giving evidence shall, unless the discipline committee otherwise directs, be excluded from the hearing except while he is actually giving evidence.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulations revoked (E.) by The National Health Service (Pharmaceutical Services) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/1909), reg. 1, Sch. 8 para. 1(1)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 4 substituted (1.4.1996) by The National Health Service (Service Committees and Tribunal) Amendment Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/703), regs. 1, 13"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 para. 5(1) omitted (19.8.2013) by virtue of The Public Bodies (Abolition of Administrative Justice and Tribunals Council) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/2042), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 46"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 inserted (1.10.2002) by The National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (Supplementary, Consequential etc. Provisions) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/2469), regs. 1, 8, Sch. 5 (with Sch. 12 Pts. 1, 2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/664/schedule/4/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:25:31.699231+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."
}