{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-appeal-tribunal-rules-1993/rule-16C",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-appeal-tribunal-rules-1993/rule-16C.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/2854",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment Appeal Tribunal Rules 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-appeal-tribunal-rules-1993",
  "path": "rule/16C",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "16C",
  "heading": "Appearance by respondent",
  "text": "A respondent wishing to resist an application under rule ... 16AA shall within 14 days of receiving the sealed copy of the application enter an appearance in, or substantially in, accordance with Form 5A in the Schedule to these Rules and setting out the grounds on which the respondent relies.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Rules 16A-16D inserted (16.7.2001) by The Employment Appeal Tribunal (Amendment) Rules 2001 (S.I. 2001/1128), rules 1(1), 9 (with rule 28) (as amended by S.I. 2001/1476, rule 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in rule 16C omitted (5.6.2011) by virtue of The Transnational Information and Consultation of Employees (Amendment) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/1088), regs. 1(1), 30(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in rule 16C inserted (1.10.2004) by The Employment Appeal Tribunal (Amendment) Rules 2004 (S.I. 2004/2526), rules 1(1), 10"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/2854/rule/16C",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:46:56.028201+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."
}