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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-act-2002/section-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-act-2002/section-26.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2002/22",
  "legislation_title": "Employment Act 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-act-2002",
  "path": "section/26",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Determination without a hearing",
  "text": "In section 7 of the Employment Tribunals Act 1996 (employment tribunal procedure regulations) for subsection (3A) there is substituted—\n“(3A) Employment tribunal procedure regulations may authorise the determination of proceedings without any hearing in such circumstances as the regulations may prescribe.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 26 in force at 9.7.2004 by S.I. 2004/1717, art. 2(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/22/section/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:19:28.817105+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."
}