Regulation 26 Attendance of others at hearing

Subject to regulation 25 and paragraphs (2) and (3), the hearing shall be in private: Provided that it shall be within the discretion of the presiding officer to allow any solicitor or any such other persons as he considers desirable to attend the whole or such part of the hearing as he may think fit, subject to the consent of all parties to the hearing.

Any member of the Authority shall be entitled to attend the hearing in a case to which regulation 25 applies or which arises from a matter to which section 72 of the 1996 Act applies.

The member concerned may be accompanied at the hearing by a member of a police force.

The presiding officer may allow witnesses to be accompanied at the hearing by a friend or relative.