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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/restrictive-practices-court-rules-1976/article-42",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1976/1897",
  "legislation_title": "The Restrictive Practices Court Rules 1976",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/restrictive-practices-court-rules-1976",
  "path": "article/42",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "42",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The final hearing shall take place in public:\nProvided that if the Court is satisfied that it is in the public interest that the hearing or part thereof should not take place in public or that evidence may be given as to a secret process of manufacture or as to the presence, absence or situation of any mineral or other deposits or as to any similar matter the publication of which would substantially damage the legitimate business interests of any person, it shall, and may in any other case in which it appears proper to the Court to do so, order that the hearing, or such part thereof as the Court may direct, shall take place in private.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1976/1897/article/42",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:29.395092+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."
}