{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/aircraft-and-shipbuilding-industries-arbitration-tribunal-rules-1977/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/aircraft-and-shipbuilding-industries-arbitration-tribunal-rules-1977/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1977/1022",
  "legislation_title": "The Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Arbitration Tribunal Rules 1977",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/aircraft-and-shipbuilding-industries-arbitration-tribunal-rules-1977",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Respondent's answer",
  "text": "(1) A respondent may, within 21 days after service upon him of the statement of the applicant, serve upon the Tribunal an answer in writing.\n(2) In his answer the respondent shall state which (if any) of the facts alleged in the applicant's statement he denies, and shall set out any other facts or matters relied upon by him and any contentions he may wish to put forward.\n(3) Any fact alleged in the statement of an applicant and not expressly denied in an answer served by a respondent shall be taken to be admitted by that respondent but without prejudice to the power of the Tribunal to require proof thereof.\n(4) Every respondent shall give in his answer an address at which any notice, order or other document in the proceedings may be served upon him.\n(5) The clerk shall, as soon as may be after being served with a respondent's answer, serve a copy thereof on the applicant and on every other respondent.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/2013/686",
      "affecting_title": "The Public Bodies (Abolition of the Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Arbitration Tribunal) Order 2013"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1977/1022/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:57:19.426377+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."
}