{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-act-tribunal-procedure-rules-1999/article-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-act-tribunal-procedure-rules-1999/article-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/2131",
  "legislation_title": "Northern Ireland Act Tribunal (Procedure) Rules 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/northern-ireland-act-tribunal-procedure-rules-1999",
  "path": "article/12",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Consideration of Secretary of State’s objection",
  "text": "(1) This Rule applies where the Secretary of State makes an objection under rule 9(8), 10(2) or 11(3), or makes an application under rule 16(3).\n(2) The parties (other than the Secretary of State) and their representatives shall be excluded from proceedings to which this rule applies.\n(3) The Tribunal shall decide whether to uphold the objection or grant the application.\n(4) Before doing so, the Tribunal shall invite each special advocate to make written representations.\n(5) After considering representations made under paragraph (4), the Tribunal may–\n(a) invite each special advocate to make oral representations; or\n(b) uphold the objection or grant the application without requiring further representations from the special advocate.\n(6) Where the Tribunal is minded to overrule the objection or to refuse the application, or to require the Secretary of State to provide material in a different form from that in which he has provided it under rule 10(2)(b) or 11(3)(b), the Tribunal shall invite the Secretary of State and each special advocate to make oral representations.\n(7) Where–\n(a) the Tribunal overrules an objection under rule 10(2) or 11(3), or requires him to provide material in a different form from that which he has provided under rule 10(2)(b) or 11(3)(b); and\n(b) the Secretary of State wishes to continue to argue that the certificate should be upheld, he shall not be required to disclose any material which was the subject of his unsuccessful objection if he chooses not to rely on it in advancing that argument.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2131/article/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:13:58.979299+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."
}