{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-care-wales-proceedings-before-panels-regulations-2016/regulation-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-care-wales-proceedings-before-panels-regulations-2016/regulation-21.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2016/1100",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Care Wales (Proceedings before Panels) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-care-wales-proceedings-before-panels-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/21",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Exclusion of the public from fitness to practise hearings",
  "text": "(1) A fitness to practise hearing must be held in public, with the following exceptions.\n(2) The fitness to practise panel must exclude the public from any part of a hearing involving consideration of the physical or mental health of the registered person, unless—\n(a) the registered person requests that part of the hearing to be held in public, and\n(b) the fitness to practise panel considers that doing so would not be against the public interest.\n(3) The fitness to practise panel may exclude the public from all or part of a hearing if it considers that the circumstances of the case outweigh the public interest in holding the hearing in public.\n(4) The fitness to practise panel may exclude a person from a hearing if it considers that the person’s conduct is likely to disrupt the hearing.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 21 in force at 3.4.2017, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2016/1100/regulation/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:28:42.430031+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."
}