{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ncis-senior-police-members-appeals-order-1998/article-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ncis-senior-police-members-appeals-order-1998/article-17.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/640",
  "legislation_title": "The NCIS (Senior Police Members) (Appeals) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ncis-senior-police-members-appeals-order-1998",
  "path": "article/17",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Procedure at the hearing",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of this Order—\n(a) the hearing shall be held in private:\nProvided that it shall be within the discretion of the NCIS appeals tribunal to allow such person or persons as it considers desirable to attend the whole or such part of the hearing as it thinks fit;\n(b) the procedure at the hearing shall be determined by the NCIS appeals tribunal who shall have the power to hear any new evidence or to re-hear the evidence given at the disciplinary hearing;\n(c) unless the NCIS appeals tribunal otherwise determines, the evidence adduced by the respondent shall be given first;\n(d) all oral evidence given at the hearing shall be given on oath;\n(e) all witnesses giving evidence at the hearing shall be subject to examination and cross-examination.\n(2) A member of the Council on Tribunals shall be entitled to attend the hearing.\n(3) Any question as to whether any evidence is admissible, or whether any question should or should not be put to a witnesss, shall be determined by the NCIS appeals tribunal.\n(4) A verbatim record of the evidence given at the hearing shall be taken and kept for a period of not less than seven years from the end of the hearing unless the Chairman of the tribunal requests that a transcription of the record be made.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/640/article/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:35:16.754147+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."
}