The Safeguarding Board for Northern Ireland (Membership, Procedure, Functions and Committee) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012

Exclusion of public from meetings

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5.  The Safeguarding Board may, by resolution, exclude the public from a meeting of the Safeguarding Board (whether during the whole or part of the proceedings at the meeting) where the Safeguarding Board is satisfied that it is necessary to do so by reason of—

(a)the confidential nature of the business to be transacted at the meeting;

(b)the need to safeguard the welfare of any child;

(c)the need to protect a person’s private life; or

(d)the need to avoid the risk of injustice in any legal proceedings.