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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pathogens-access-appeal-commission-procedure-rules-2002/article-18",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/1845",
  "legislation_title": "The Pathogens Access Appeal Commission (Procedure) Rules 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pathogens-access-appeal-commission-procedure-rules-2002",
  "path": "article/18",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Proceedings in private",
  "text": "(1) Where the Commission considers it necessary for the appellant and his representative to be excluded from the proceedings or any part of them in order to secure that there is no disclosure of information which is contrary to the public interest, it must—\n(a) order accordingly, and\n(b) hear the proceedings, or that part of it from which the appellant and his representative are excluded, in private.\n(2) The Commission may hear the proceedings or part of them in private for any other good reason.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/1845/article/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:52:32.149756+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."
}