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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-language-tribunal-rules-2015/article-38",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2015/1028",
  "legislation_title": "The Welsh Language Tribunal Rules 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welsh-language-tribunal-rules-2015",
  "path": "article/38",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "38",
  "heading": "Public hearings",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (3), all Tribunal hearings must be held in public.\n(2) Without prejudice to any other powers it may have, the Tribunal may exclude from a hearing, or part of it, any person whose conduct is likely, in the opinion of the Tribunal, to disrupt the hearing.\n(3) If it appears to the Tribunal that a party or witness, intends to refer, in the course of a hearing, to matters which relate to any confidential personal information or which relate to an individual child or to another vulnerable person, the Tribunal may, to the extent that it is necessary in order to protect the privacy of the person in question, whilst ensuring fairness and justice, exclude from the relevant part (or relevant parts) of the hearing anyone who is not a party to the case.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2015/1028/article/38",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:34:57.101044+00:00"
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  "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."
}