{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-appeal-tribunal-rules-1993/rule-37",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-appeal-tribunal-rules-1993/rule-37.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/37",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "37",
  "heading": "Time",
  "text": "(1) The time prescribed by these Rules or by order of the Appeal Tribunal for doing any act may be extended (whether it has already expired or not) or abridged, and the date appointed for any purpose may be altered, by order of the Tribunal.\n(1A) Where an act is required to be done on or before a particular day it shall be done by 4 pm on that day.\n(2) Where the last day for the doing of any act falls on a day on which the appropriate office of the Tribunal is closed and by reason thereof the act cannot be done on that day, it may be done on the next day on which that office is open.\n(3) An application for an extension of the time prescribed for the doing of an act, including the institution of an appeal under rule 3, shall be heard and determined as an interim application under rule 20.\n(4) An application for an extension of the time prescribed for the institution of an appeal under rule 3 shall not be heard until the notice of appeal has been served on the Appeal Tribunal.\n(5) If the appellant makes a minor error in complying with the requirement under rule 3(1) to submit relevant documents to the Appeal Tribunal, and rectifies that error (on a request from the Appeal Tribunal or otherwise), the time prescribed for the institution of an appeal under rule 3 may be extended if it is considered just to do so having regard to all the circumstances, including the manner in which, and the timeliness with which, the error has been rectified and any prejudice to any respondent.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Rule 37(1A) inserted (1.10.2004) by The Employment Appeal Tribunal (Amendment) Rules 2004 (S.I. 2004/2526), rules 1(1), 23(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in rule 37(3) substituted (1.10.2004) by The Employment Appeal Tribunal (Amendment) Rules 2004 (S.I. 2004/2526), rules 1(1), 23(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Rule 37(4) inserted (16.7.2001) by The Employment Appeal Tribunal (Amendment) Rules 2001 (S.I. 2001/1128), rules 1(1), 23 (with rule 28) (as amended by S.I. 2001/1476, rule 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Rule 37(5) inserted (30.9.2023) by The Employment Appeal Tribunal (Amendment) Rules 2023 (S.I. 2023/967), rules 1(1), 2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 37 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/37",
    "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."
}