The Religious Education (Meetings of Local Conferences and Councils) Regulations 1994

Meetings to be held in public

3.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below and regulation 9 below,—

(a)a meeting shall be open to members of the public; and

(b)while a meeting is open to members of the public the conference or the council shall not have power to exclude from the meeting members of the public or duly accredited representatives of news media attending the meeting for the purpose of reporting the proceedings.

(2) For the purpose of suppressing or preventing disorderly conduct or other misbehaviour at a meeting the conference or the council shall have power to exclude any person from a meeting.