{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-tribunals-act-1996/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-tribunals-act-1996/section-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/17",
  "legislation_title": "Employment Tribunals Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-tribunals-act-1996",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Practice and procedure: general",
  "text": "Procedure Rules (see section 37QA) are to govern the practice and procedure to be followed in employment tribunals.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 7 substituted (25.4.2024) by Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (c. 35), ss. 34(2), 51(4) (with s. 36); S.I. 2024/568, reg. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 7 extended (24.4.2000) by 1992 c. 52, s. 239(4)(b) (as inserted (24.4.2000) by 1999 c. 26, s. 16, Sch. 5 para. 4; S.I. 2000/875, art. 2 (subject to transitional provision in art. 3))"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/17/section/7",
    "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."
}