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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-conduct-regulations-1999/regulation-27",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/730",
  "legislation_title": "The Police (Conduct) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-conduct-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/27",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Exclusion of public from hearing",
  "text": "Where it appears to the presiding officer that a witness may, in giving evidence, disclose information which, in the public interest, ought not to be disclosed to a member of the public he shall require any member of the public including the complainant and any person allowed to accompany the complainant or any witness to withdraw while the evidence is given.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/730/regulation/27",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:56:09.095338+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."
}