{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-tribunals-act-1996/section-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-tribunals-act-1996/section-19.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/17",
  "legislation_title": "Employment Tribunals Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-tribunals-act-1996",
  "path": "section/19",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Conciliation procedure.",
  "text": "(1) Procedure Rules must include in relation to employment tribunal proceedings in the case of which any enactment makes provision for conciliation—\n(a) provisions requiring a copy of the application by which the proceedings are instituted, and a copy of any notice relating to it which is lodged by or on behalf of the person against whom the proceedings are brought, to be sent to a conciliation officer, and\n(b) provisions securing that the applicant and the person against whom the proceedings are brought are notified that the services of a conciliation officer are available to them, . . .\n(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 19 renumbered (9.7.2004) as s. 19(1) by 2002 c. 22, ss. 24(4), 55(2); S.I. 2004/1717, art. 2(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 19(1) substituted (25.4.2024) by Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (c. 35), s. 51(4), Sch. 5 para. 16; S.I. 2024/568, reg. 2(b)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 19 substituted (1.8.1998) by 1998 c. 8, s. 1(2)(a) (with s. 16(2)); S.I. 1998/1658, art. 2(1), Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in s. 19(a) inserted (1.10.2004) by Employment Act 2002 (c. 22), ss. 53, 55(2), Sch. 7 para. 23(3); S.I. 2004/2185, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 19(c) and word immediately before it repealed (6.4.2003) by 2002 c. 22, ss. 24(3), 54, Sch. 8; S.I. 2002/2866, art. 2(4)(5), Sch. 2 Pt. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "S. 19(2) inserted (9.7.2004) by 2002 c. 22, ss. 24(4), 55(2); S.I. 2004/1717, art. 2(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "S. 19(2) repealed (6.4.2009) by Employment Act 2008 (c. 24), ss. 6(2), 22(1)(a), Sch. Pt. 1; S.I. 2008/3232, art. 2 (with art. 3, Sch.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/17/section/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:32:15.822367+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."
}