The Life Sentences (Northern Ireland) Order 2001

6.—(1) The rules may permit Commissioners to hold proceedings in specified circumstances in the absence of any person, including the prisoner concerned and any representative appointed by him.

(2) Where a prisoner and any representative appointed by him are excluded from proceedings by virtue of sub-paragraph (1), the Attorney General may appoint a person to represent the prisoner’s interests in those proceedings.

(3) A person appointed under sub-paragraph (2) shall not be responsible to the prisoner whose interests he represents.