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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/acas-flexible-working-arbitration-scheme-england-and-wales-order-2003/schedule-VI./paragraph-21",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/694",
  "legislation_title": "The ACAS (Flexible Working) Arbitration Scheme (England and Wales) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/acas-flexible-working-arbitration-scheme-england-and-wales-order-2003",
  "path": "schedule/VI./paragraph/21",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Any agreement to submit a dispute to arbitration under the Scheme must satisfy the following requirements (an “Arbitration Agreement”):\n(i) the agreement must be in writing;\n(ii) the agreement must concern an existing dispute;\n(iii) the agreement must not seek to alter or vary any provision of the Scheme;\n(iv) the agreement must have been reached either:\n(a) where a conciliation officer has taken action under section 18 of the Employment Tribunals Act 1996 (a “Conciliated Agreement”) or\n(b) through a compromise agreement, where the conditions regulating such agreements under the 1996 Act are satisfied (a “Compromise Agreement”);\n(v) the agreement must be accompanied by a completed Waiver Form for each party, in the form of Appendix A.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1996 c. 17. Section 18 was amended by paragraph 23 of Schedule 7 to the Employment Act 2002."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/694/schedule/VI./paragraph/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:28:58.122091+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}