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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/enterprise-act-2002/schedule-4/paragraph-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/enterprise-act-2002/schedule-4/paragraph-16.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2002/40",
  "legislation_title": "Enterprise Act 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/enterprise-act-2002",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/16",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Pre-hearing reviews and preliminary matters",
  "text": "(1) Tribunal rules may make provision for the carrying out by the Tribunal of a preliminary consideration of proceedings (a “pre-hearing review”).\n(2) That provision may include—\n(a) provision enabling such powers to be exercised on a pre-hearing review as may be specified in the rules;\n(b) provision for security and supplemental provision relating to security.\n(3) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (2)(b)—\n(a) “provision for security” means provision authorising the Tribunal, in specified circumstances, to order a party to the proceedings, if he wishes to continue to participate in them, to pay a deposit not exceeding such sum as may be specified or calculated in a specified manner; and\n(b) “supplemental provision”, in relation to security, means provision as to—\n(i) the manner in which the amount of a deposit is to be determined;\n(ii) the consequences of non-payment of a deposit;\n(iii) the circumstances in which the deposit, or any part of it, may be refunded to the person who paid it or paid to another party to the proceedings.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/40/schedule/4/paragraph/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:18:50.931325+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."
}