{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-tribunal-procedure-rules-2024/rule-53",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-tribunal-procedure-rules-2024/rule-53.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/53",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "53",
  "heading": "Direction for preliminary hearing",
  "text": "(1) The Tribunal may, on its own initiative or on the application of a party, direct a preliminary hearing.\n(2) The Tribunal must give the parties reasonable notice of the date of the preliminary hearing. In the case of a hearing involving any preliminary issue, this must not be less than 14 days’ notice of the date of the preliminary hearing and the notice must specify the preliminary issues that are to be, or may be, decided at the hearing.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 53 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/53",
    "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."
}