Article 22 Location and privacy of oral hearingsI1

Northern Ireland

(1)

Subject to rule 18(9) oral hearings shall be held at the prison unless the chairman of the panel and the parties agree otherwise.

(2)

Oral hearings shall be held in private.

(3)

F1Subject to rule 22A, information about the proceedings and the names of any persons concerned in the proceedings shall not be made public.

(4)

The chairman of the panel may admit to the oral hearing such persons on such terms and conditions as the chairman of the panel considers appropriate.

Annotations

F1: Words in rule 22(3) substituted (21.6.2021) by The Parole Commissioners’ (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2021 (S.R. 2021/138), rules 1, 2(1)