{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-tribunal-procedure-rules-2024/rule-59",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-tribunal-procedure-rules-2024/rule-59.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/59",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "59",
  "heading": "Decisions made at or following a hearing",
  "text": "(1) Where there is a hearing the Tribunal may either announce its decision in relation to any issue at the hearing or reserve it to be sent to the parties as soon as practicable in writing.\n(2) If the decision is announced at the hearing, a written record of the decision must be provided to the parties.\n(3) Paragraph (2) does not apply to decisions concerned only with the conduct of a hearing unless a party requests that a specific decision is so recorded.\n(4) The written record must be approved by the presiding member.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Rule 59(2)(3) substituted (2.3.2026) by The Tribunal Procedure and Employment Tribunal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2026 (S.I. 2026/115), rules 1(2), 8(11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 59 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/59",
    "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."
}