{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-appeals-tribunals-rules-2008/rule-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-appeals-tribunals-rules-2008/rule-21.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/2863",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Appeals Tribunals Rules 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-appeals-tribunals-rules-2008",
  "path": "rule/21",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Exclusion from hearing",
  "text": "(1) On the application of the appellant or the respondent or otherwise, the chair may require any observer to withdraw from all or any part of the hearing.\n(2) The chair may impose such conditions as he sees fit relating to the attendance of an observer (or any person accompanying a complainant or interested person) at the hearing in order to facilitate the proper conduct of the hearing.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "saving for effect of SI 2012/2630 rule 2(1)(a)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2017/1250",
      "affecting_title": "The Independent Office for Police Conduct (Transitional and Consequential) Regulations 2017"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/2863/rule/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:22:24.588507+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."
}