The Health Service Medicines (Price Control Appeals) Regulations 2000

Publication of notice of hearings

24.—(1) The tribunal must publish in such manner as the chairman may direct, taking into account the need for transparency, the importance of each appeal and the degree of public interest in each appeal, a list of all appeals for which an oral hearing is to be held and of the time and place fixed for each hearing.

(2) The tribunal must, subject to paragraph (3), make available on request the material supplied by each party in relation to each appeal for which an oral hearing is to be held.

(3) Where any material supplied by either party contains any matter which is confidential, the party may request that for that reason it is not made available under this regulation, or is made available in an amended form, and in such a case the material must be made available to such extent and in such form as the chairman thinks appropriate, and the chairman may make such deletions from any material as may be necessary for the purposes of complying with this paragraph.

(4) For the purposes of this regulation, a matter is confidential if–

(a) it relates to intimate personal or financial circumstances, is commercially sensitive, or consists of information communicated or obtained in confidence, or

(b) its disclosure would be contrary to the interests of national security.

(5) This regulation does not affect any duty of confidentiality imposed by or under any other enactment or by any rule of law.