{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-appeal-tribunal-rules-1993/rule-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-appeal-tribunal-rules-1993/rule-20.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/20",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Disposal of interim applications",
  "text": "(1) Every interim application made to the Appeal Tribunal shall be considered in the first place by the Registrar who shall have regard to rule 2A (the overriding objective) and, where applicable, to rule 23(5).\n(2) Subject to sub-paragraphs (3) and (4), every interim application shall be disposed of by the Registrar except that any matter which he thinks should properly be decided by the Appeal Tribunal shall be referred by him to the Appeal Tribunal, which may dispose of it ... or refer it back to the Registrar with such directions as it thinks fit.\n(3) Every interim application for a restricted reporting order shall be disposed of by the Appeal Tribunal.\n(4) Every interim application for permission to institute or continue or to make a claim or application in any proceedings before an employment tribunal or the Appeal Tribunal, pursuant to section 33(4) of the 1996 Act, shall be disposed of by the Appeal Tribunal.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Rule 20 substituted (1.10.2004) by The Employment Appeal Tribunal (Amendment) Rules 2004 (S.I. 2004/2526), rules 1(1), 13"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in rule 20(2) substituted (27.1.2024) by The Employment Tribunals and Employment Appeal Tribunal (Composition of Tribunal) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/94), regs. 1(1), 7(4)(a)(i) (with reg. 9(b))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in rule 20(2) substituted (27.1.2024) by The Employment Tribunals and Employment Appeal Tribunal (Composition of Tribunal) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/94), regs. 1(1), 7(4)(a)(ii) (with reg. 9(b))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in rule 20(2) omitted (27.1.2024) by virtue of The Employment Tribunals and Employment Appeal Tribunal (Composition of Tribunal) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/94), regs. 1(1), 7(4)(a)(iii) (with reg. 9(b))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word in rule 20(2) substituted (27.1.2024) by The Employment Tribunals and Employment Appeal Tribunal (Composition of Tribunal) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/94), regs. 1(1), 7(4)(a)(iv) (with reg. 9(b))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in rule 20(3) substituted (27.1.2024) by The Employment Tribunals and Employment Appeal Tribunal (Composition of Tribunal) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/94), regs. 1(1), 7(4)(b) (with reg. 9(b))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in rule 20(4) substituted (27.1.2024) by The Employment Tribunals and Employment Appeal Tribunal (Composition of Tribunal) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/94), regs. 1(1), 7(4)(b) (with reg. 9(b))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 20 in force at 16.12.1993, see rule 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/2854/rule/20",
    "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."
}