SCHEDULE
Hearings to be public: exceptionsI116
1
All hearings by a tribunal shall be held in public except where the tribunal considers that publicity would prejudice the interests of justice.
2
The following persons shall be entitled to attend a hearing whether or not it is in private—
a
the president and members of the Adjudication Panel for Wales notwithstanding that they do not constitute the tribunal for the purpose of the hearing;
F1b
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c
a Local Commissioner in Wales or the representative of a Local Commissioner in Wales; and
d
the monitoring officer of an authority of which the accused person is a member or co-opted member F2or the representative of the monitoring officer.
3
The tribunal may permit any other person to attend a hearing which is held in private.
4
Without prejudice to any other powers which it may have, a tribunal may exclude from a hearing, or part of it, any person whose conduct has disrupted or is likely, in the opinion of the tribunal, to disrupt the hearing.