{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/special-immigration-appeals-commission-procedure-rules-2003/article-43",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/special-immigration-appeals-commission-procedure-rules-2003/article-43.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/1034",
  "legislation_title": "The Special Immigration Appeals Commission (Procedure) Rules 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/special-immigration-appeals-commission-procedure-rules-2003",
  "path": "article/43",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "43",
  "heading": "Hearings in private",
  "text": "(1) If the Commission considers it necessary for the appellant and his representative to be excluded from a hearing or part of a hearing in order to secure that information is not disclosed contrary to the public interest, it must—\n(a) direct accordingly; and\n(b) conduct the hearing, or that part of it from which the appellant and his representative are excluded, in private.\n(2) The Commission may conduct a hearing or part of a hearing in private for any other good reason.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 43 in force at 1.4.2003, see rule 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/1034/article/43",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:26:18.096850+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."
}