15Procedure at hearings

15 Procedure at hearings

(1) A hearing must be held in public except in the circumstances set out in subsection (2). (2) If the Commission is satisfied that it is in the public interest not to hold the hearing, or a part of it, in public because of the confidential nature of any evidence or matter, or for any other reason, it may: (a) direct that the hearing, or that part of it, take place in private; and (b) give directions as to who may be present. (3) Sections 39 and 40 apply to a hearing, so far as those sections are capable of so applying, as if the hearing were a meeting of the Commission.