{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-tribunal-procedure-rules-2024/rule-83",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-tribunal-procedure-rules-2024/rule-83.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/83",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "83",
  "heading": "Sending documents to the Tribunal",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), documents may be sent to the Tribunal—\n(a) by post;\n(b) by direct delivery to the appropriate tribunal office (including delivery by a courier or messenger service);\n(c) by electronic communication.\n(2) A claim form, or a response form may only be sent in accordance with any practice direction.\n(3) The Tribunal must notify the parties following the presentation of the claim of the address of the tribunal office dealing with the case (including any email or other electronic address) and all documents must be sent to either the postal, email or other electronic address so notified.\n(4) The Tribunal may from time to time notify the parties of any change of address, or that a particular form of communication should or should not be used, and any documents must be sent to the Tribunal in accordance with that notification.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 83 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/83",
    "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."
}