{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-appeals-tribunals-rules-2020/article-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-appeals-tribunals-rules-2020/article-22.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2020/1",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Appeals Tribunals Rules 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-appeals-tribunals-rules-2020",
  "path": "article/22",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Attendance at hearing",
  "text": "(1) Subject to rule 25, the hearing of an appeal brought in accordance with rule 4 or 6 must be held in public.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3) and rules 23 and 24, the hearing of an appeal brought in accordance with rule 5 must be held in private.\n(2A) Subject to paragraph (3), the hearing of an appeal brought in accordance with rule 5A must be held in private.\n(3) The tribunal may allow a person to attend all or part of the hearing of an appeal brought under rule 5 or 5A as an observer for the purposes of training.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Rule 22(2A) inserted (14.5.2025) by The Police (Vetting) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/502), regs. 1(1), 31(6)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in rule 22(3) inserted (14.5.2025) by The Police (Vetting) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/502), regs. 1(1), 31(6)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 22 in force at 1.2.2020, see rule 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/1/article/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:35:06.674662+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."
}