{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-tribunal-procedure-rules-2024/rule-73",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-tribunal-procedure-rules-2024/rule-73.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/73",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "73",
  "heading": "Costs orders and preparation time orders",
  "text": "(1) A costs order is an order that the paying party make a payment to—\n(a) the receiving party in respect of the costs that the receiving party has incurred while represented by a legal representative or a lay representative, or\n(b) another party or witness in respect of expenses incurred, or to be incurred, for the purpose of, or in connection with, an individual’s attendance as a witness at a hearing.\n(2) A preparation time order is an order that the paying party make a payment to the receiving party in respect of the receiving party’s preparation time while not represented by a legal representative.\n(3) A costs order under paragraph (1)(a) and a preparation time order may not both be made in favour of the same party in the same proceedings.\n(4) The Tribunal may decide in the course of the proceedings that a party is entitled to either a costs order or a preparation time order but may defer its decision on the kind of order to make until a later stage in the proceedings.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 73 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/73",
    "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."
}