{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-children-act-tribunal-regulations-2000/regulation-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-children-act-tribunal-regulations-2000/regulation-18.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/2619",
  "legislation_title": "Protection of Children Act Tribunal Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-children-act-tribunal-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/18",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Disclosure of information and documents",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) to (4) the President may give directions—\n(a) requiring a party to send to the Secretary any document or other material which he considers may assist the Tribunal in determining the application and which that party is able to send, and the Secretary shall take such steps as the President may direct to supply copies of any information or document obtained under this paragraph to the other party;\n(b) granting to a party the right to inspect and take copies of any document or other material which it is in the power of the other party to disclose, and appointing the time at or within which and the place at which any such inspection and copying is to be done.\n(2) It shall be a condition of the supply of any document or material under paragraph (1) that a party shall use it only for the purpose of the proceedings.\n(3) Paragraph (1) does not apply in relation to any document or other material which the party could not be compelled to produce in legal proceedings in a county court.\n(4) Before making a direction under paragraph (1) the President shall take into account the need to protect any matter which relates to intimate personal or financial circumstances, is commercially sensitive, or was communicated or obtained in confidence.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/2619/regulation/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:16:08.427152+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."
}