S.L. 464.20 Art. 14Public proceedings. 

Proceedings before the Disciplinary Committee shall be held in public:

Provided that proceedings may be held in camera in exceptional circumstances as determined by the Disciplinary Committee when:

(a) following the issuance of a charge against a health care professional, the complainant and the aggrieved party submit, within two (2) weeks from receipt of that notice in accordance with regulation 11(2), a written request to the Disciplinary Committee for the proceedings to be held in and provide the exceptional reasons to camera substantiate such request; or

(b) in the written reply, the health care professional who is being charged includes a preliminary request that the proceedings be held and in camera provides the exceptional reasons to substantiate such request. Upon receipt of such request, the secretary of the Disciplinary Committee shall inform the complainant and the aggrieved party of such request and shall provide a period not longer than two (2) weeks within which the said complainant and the aggrieved party may indicate whether they accede or reject such request and provide the reasons thereto:

Provided further that when a request in accordance with paragraphs (a) or (b) of the first proviso is made, the Disciplinary Committee shall determine this matter during the first sitting immediately before the reading of the charge in accordance with regulation 16(2).