{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-tribunal-procedure-rules-2024/rule-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-tribunal-procedure-rules-2024/rule-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2024/1155",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment Tribunal Procedure Rules 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-tribunal-procedure-rules-2024",
  "path": "rule/16",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Sending claim form to respondents",
  "text": "(1) Unless the claim is rejected in full, the Tribunal must send a copy of the claim form to each respondent with a notice which includes the following information—\n(a) whether any part of the claim has been rejected,\n(b) how to present a response to the claim,\n(c) the period by which a response must be received by the Tribunal, and\n(d) what will happen if the Tribunal does not receive a response in time.\n(2) Where the Tribunal accepts part of a claim on reconsideration under rule 14 (reconsideration of rejection of claim) after rejection of that part, it must—\n(a) unless it has already done so under paragraph (1), send a copy of the claim form to each respondent,\n(b) notify the respondent that the rejected part has now been accepted, and\n(c) direct the period by which a response must be received by the Tribunal.\n(3) If the Tribunal sends a copy of the claim form to an address for a respondent which differs from that provided on the claim form (whether or not a copy of the claim form has already been sent by the Tribunal to an address provided on the claim form), the Tribunal may also direct that the period by which a response must be received by the Tribunal under rule 17(1) (response) begins from the date that a copy of the claim form is sent to that address.\n(4) The Tribunal may send a copy of the claim form to the Secretary of State in any case where it appears that rule 95 (proceedings involving the National Insurance Fund) may apply.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 16 in force at 6.1.2025 immediately after S.I. 2024/1156 comes into force, see rule 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/1155/rule/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:24:28.531903+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."
}