Not less than fourteen days’ notice of the date, time and place at which any meeting of the committee or tribunal is to be held, being a meeting at which the committee or tribunal intends to hear any person, to receive oral evidence or to pronounce its findings, shall be given to the bishop, the incumbent concerned, the secretary of the parochial church council of any parish belonging to the benefice of which the incumbent concerned is the incumbent, the archdeacon in whose archdeaconry any such parish is and the designated representative, if any.

A notice under this paragraph shall state that the person to whom the notice is given and, in the case of a notice given to the designated representative, that the other person specified in the relevant request as being willing to act as a representative of the persons making the request, may attend the meeting to which the notice relates.

Where the request for an enquiry under Part I of this Measure was made by the persons mentioned in section 1(1)(c) or (d) thereof, none of those persons shall, subject to sub-paragraph (2) above, be entitled to attend any meeting of the committee or tribunal by which the enquiry is being conducted without the consent of the chairman of the committee or tribunal, as the case may be, unless the meeting is one which is held in public by virtue of paragraph 14(2) or (3) above.