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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-tribunal-procedure-rules-2024/schedule-2/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-tribunal-procedure-rules-2024/schedule-2/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2024/1155",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment Tribunal Procedure Rules 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-tribunal-procedure-rules-2024",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Application and interpretation of Schedule 2",
  "text": "(1) This Schedule applies to equal value claims.\n(2) In this Schedule—\n“comparator” means the person of the opposite sex to the claimant in relation to whom the claimant alleges that his or her work is of equal value;\n“the facts relating to the question” has the meaning in rule 6(1)(a);\n“independent expert” means a member of the panel of independent experts mentioned in section 131(8) of the Equality Act;\n“the question” means whether the claimant’s work is of equal value to that of the comparator;\n“report” means a report required by a Tribunal to be prepared in accordance with section 131(2) of the Equality Act;\n“study” means a job evaluation study as defined in section 80(5) of the Equality Act.\n(3) Any reference in this Schedule to a rule, is a reference to a rule in this Schedule unless otherwise provided.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 1 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/schedule/2/paragraph/1",
    "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."
}