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Section 9 Preliminary hearings.F15C1

England, Wales and Scotland

F1(1)

If Procedure Rules authorise an employment tribunal to carry out a preliminary hearing, Procedure Rules may make provision for enabling such powers as may be prescribed by the Rules to be exercised in connection with the hearing.

(2)

Such F2Rules may in particular include provision—

(a)

for authorising any tribunal carrying out a F3preliminary hearing F4... to make, in circumstances specified in the F5Rules, an order requiring a party to the proceedings in questionF6... to pay a deposit F7... F8as a condition of—

(i)

continuing to participate in those proceedings, or

(ii)

pursuing any specified allegations or arguments, and

(b)

for prescribing—

(i)

the manner in which the amount of any such deposit is to be determined in any particular case,

(ii)

the consequences of non-payment of any such deposit, and

(iii)

the circumstances in which any such deposit, or any part of it, may be refunded to the party who paid it or be paid over to another party to the proceedings.

F9(2ZA)

Procedure Rules of the kind mentioned in subsection (2)(a) may not provide for a deposit of an amount exceeding £1,000.

F10(2A)

Procedure Rules may not enable a power of striking out to be exercised in a preliminary hearing on a ground which does not apply outside a preliminary hearing.

(3)

The F11Lord Chancellor may from time to time by order substitute for the sum specified in subsection F12(2ZA) such other sum as is specified in the order.

F13(4)

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F14(5)

In this section “preliminary hearing” means a hearing in any proceedings before an employment tribunal which takes place at a time before a hearing held for the purpose of determining them.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

S. 9(1) substituted (25.4.2024) by Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (c. 35), s. 51(4), Sch. 5 para. 5(3); S.I. 2024/568, reg. 2(b)(ii)

F2

Word in s. 9(2) substituted (25.4.2024) by Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (c. 35), s. 51(4), Sch. 5 para. 5(4)(a); S.I. 2024/568, reg. 2(b)(ii)

F3

Words in s. 9(2)(a) substituted (25.4.2024) by Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (c. 35), s. 51(4), Sch. 5 para. 5(4)(b)(i); S.I. 2024/568, reg. 2(b)(ii)

F4

Words in s. 9(2)(a) omitted (25.4.2024) by virtue of Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (c. 35), s. 51(4), Sch. 5 para. 5(4)(b)(ii); S.I. 2024/568, reg. 2(b)(ii)

F5

Word in s. 9(2)(a) substituted (25.4.2024) by Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (c. 35), s. 51(4), Sch. 5 para. 5(4)(b)(iii); S.I. 2024/568, reg. 2(b)(ii)

F6

Words in s. 9(2)(a) omitted (25.6.2013) by virtue of Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (c. 24), ss. 21(2)(a), 103(2)

F7

Words in s. 9(2)(a) omitted (25.4.2024) by virtue of Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (c. 35), s. 51(4), Sch. 5 para. 5(4)(b)(iv); S.I. 2024/568, reg. 2(b)(ii)

F8

Words in s. 9(2)(a) inserted (25.6.2013) by Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (c. 24), ss. 21(2)(b), 103(2)

F9

S. 9(2ZA) inserted (25.4.2024) by Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (c. 35), s. 51(4), Sch. 5 para. 5(5); S.I. 2024/568, reg. 2(b)(ii)

F10

S. 9(2A) substituted (25.4.2024) by Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (c. 35), s. 51(4), Sch. 5 para. 5(6); S.I. 2024/568, reg. 2(b)(ii)

F11

Words in s. 9(3) substituted (25.4.2024) by Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (c. 35), s. 51(4), Sch. 5 para. 5(7)(a); S.I. 2024/568, reg. 2(b)(ii)

F12

Word in s. 9(3) substituted (25.4.2024) by Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (c. 35), s. 51(4), Sch. 5 para. 5(7)(b); S.I. 2024/568, reg. 2(b)(ii)

F13

S. 9(4) omitted (25.4.2024) by virtue of Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (c. 35), s. 51(4), Sch. 5 para. 5(8); S.I. 2024/568, reg. 2(b)(ii)

F14

S. 9(5) inserted (25.4.2024) by Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (c. 35), s. 51(4), Sch. 5 para. 5(9); S.I. 2024/568, reg. 2(b)(ii)

F15

S. 9 heading substituted (25.4.2024) by Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (c. 35), s. 51(4), Sch. 5 para. 5(2); S.I. 2024/568, reg. 2(b)(ii)

Modifications

C1

S. 9 extended (24.4.2000) by 1992 c. 52, s. 239(4)(c) (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))

Notes on the whole Act

Textual amendments

F1

The Industrial Tribunals Act 1996 may be cited as the Employment Tribunals Act 1996 (1.8.1998) by virtue of 1998 c. 8, s. 1(2) (with s. 16(2)); S.I. 1998/1658, art. 2(1), Sch. 1

F2

Words in long title substituted (1.8.1998) by 1998 c. 8, s. 1(2)(b) (with s. 16(2); S.I. 1998/1658, art. 2(1), Sch. 1

Notes on Part I

Textual amendments

F1

S. 12A applied (with modifications) by 1992 c. 52, s. 138(2A) as inserted (6.4.2014) by Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (c. 24), s. 103(3), Sch. 3 para. 1 (with s. 24(5)); S.I. 2014/253, art. 3(h)

F2

Words in part heading substituted (1.8.1998) by 1998 c. 8, s. 1(2)(b) (with s. 16(2)); S.I. 1998/1658, art. 2(1), Sch. 1