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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/special-procedures-licensing-committees-wales-regulations-2024/regulation-11",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2024/969",
  "legislation_title": "The Special Procedures Licensing Committees (Wales) Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/special-procedures-licensing-committees-wales-regulations-2024",
  "path": "regulation/11",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Procedure at hearing",
  "text": "(1) Subject to regulation 10 and paragraph (9), a relevant committee must permit a party to attend a hearing and be assisted or represented by any person whether or not that person is legally qualified.\n(2) At the beginning of the hearing, the relevant committee must—\n(a) explain to the parties the procedure which it proposes to follow at the hearing, and\n(b) consider any request made by a party under regulation 7(2) for permission for another person to appear at the hearing, and such permission must not be unreasonably withheld.\n(3) In conducting a hearing, the relevant committee must ensure that each party is given the opportunity to—\n(a) address the relevant committee on any matter that is relevant to the warning notice or to any representations made on the warning notice;\n(b) call witnesses to give evidence on any matter that is relevant to the warning notice or any representations made on the warning notice;\n(c) provide further information on any matter on which the relevant committee required clarification under regulation 6(1)(g);\n(d) provide information on any other matters that may arise during the course of the hearing.\n(4) In conducting a hearing, the relevant committee must also—\n(a) permit any party to question any other party or person representing a party on any matter that is relevant to the warning notice, or any representations made on the warning notice, where the relevant committee considers that in all the circumstances it is appropriate to do so, and\n(b) take into consideration documentary or other information provided in support of the warning notice or representations made by a party—\n(i) before the hearing, or\n(ii) at the hearing,\nwith the consent of all the other parties attending the hearing.\n(5) If a party does not provide its consent in respect of paragraph (4)(b), the relevant committee must determine whether said documentary or other information is to be taken into consideration.\n(6) Without prejudice to paragraphs (3) and (4), a hearing must be conducted so that it takes the form of a discussion led by the relevant committee.\n(7) The relevant committee must not permit any cross-examination unless it considers that cross-examination is required for it to properly consider the warning notice or representations made by any party.\n(8) The relevant committee must allow the parties an equal maximum period of time in which to exercise their rights provided for in paragraphs (3) and (4)(a).\n(9) The relevant committee may require any person attending the hearing who, in their opinion, is behaving in a disruptive manner to leave the hearing, and may—\n(a) refuse to permit that person to return, or\n(b) permit them to return only on such conditions as the relevant committee may specify.\n(10) The relevant committee may allow a person who is attending the hearing and in their opinion is behaving in a disruptive manner, or in breach of conditions specified under paragraph (9)(b), to remain at the hearing only on such conditions as the relevant committee may specify.\n(11) Where a person is required to leave the hearing in accordance with paragraph (9), the relevant committee must—\n(a) permit them to submit in writing to the relevant committee, before the end of the hearing, any information which they would have been entitled to give orally had they not been required to leave, and\n(b) take into account that information in reaching its determination.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2024/969/regulation/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:59:53.579398+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."
}