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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-appeals-tribunals-scotland-rules-1996/article-12",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1644",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Appeals Tribunals (Scotland) Rules 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-appeals-tribunals-scotland-rules-1996",
  "path": "article/12",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Hearings to be in private",
  "text": "(1) A hearing fixed in accordance with rule 9 shall be in private unless the tribunal with the consent of the parties directs that the hearing, or a part of it, shall be in public.\n(2) A member of the Council on Tribunals or of the Scottish Committee of that Council shall be entitled to attend the hearing of the appeal, whether or not it is in private.\n(3) Where the tribunal sits in private it may admit to the hearing such other persons on such terms and conditions as it considers appropriate.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "ssi/2013/63",
      "affecting_title": "The Police Appeals Tribunals (Scotland) Rules 2013"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1644/article/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:40:38.914646+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."
}