{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-user-charging-enforcement-and-adjudication-london-regulations-2001/schedule/paragraph-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-user-charging-enforcement-and-adjudication-london-regulations-2001/schedule/paragraph-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/2313",
  "legislation_title": "The Road User Charging (Enforcement and Adjudication) (London) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-user-charging-enforcement-and-adjudication-london-regulations-2001",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Admission to a hearing",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of this paragraph, a hearing shall be held in public.\n(2) The adjudicator may direct that the whole or any part of a hearing be held in private if he is satisfied that by reason of—\n(a) the likelihood of disclosure of intimate personal or financial circumstances;\n(b) the likelihood of disclosure of commercially sensitive information or information obtained in confidence; or\n(c) exceptional circumstances not falling within paragraphs (a) or (b);\nit is just and reasonable for him so to do.\n(3) Where the hearing is in private the adjudicator may admit such persons as he considers appropriate.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) Without prejudice to any other powers he may have, an adjudicator may exclude from the hearing of an appeal, or part of it, any person whose conduct has disrupted or is likely, in the opinion of the adjudicator, to disrupt the hearing.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 8(4) omitted (3.11.2008) by virtue of The Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/2683), art. 1, Sch. 1 para. 165"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 8 in force at 30.7.2001, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/2313/schedule/paragraph/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:45:22.124498+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."
}