Article 4 Period for service of reply
The period prescribed for the purpose of subsections (4)(a) and (6)(a) of section 6B (power of the tribunal to draw inferences from an employer’s failure to reply to a question within such period) shall be –
(a)
except where sub-paragraph (b) applies, the period of eight weeks starting on the day that a question was duly served; or
(b)
where a question was asked before 25th August 2004, the period of eight weeks starting on 25th August 2004.