{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/industrial-tribunals-northern-ireland-order-1996/article-15A",
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  "legislation": "nisi/1996/1921",
  "legislation_title": "The Industrial Tribunals (Northern Ireland) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/industrial-tribunals-northern-ireland-order-1996",
  "path": "article/15A",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "15A",
  "heading": "Payments in respect of preparation time",
  "text": "(1) Industrial tribunal procedure regulations may include provision for authorising an industrial tribunal to order a party to proceedings before it to make a payment to any other party in respect of time spent in preparing that other party's case.\n(2) Regulations under paragraph (1) may include provision authorising an industrial tribunal to have regard to a person's ability to pay when considering the making of an order against him under such regulations.\n(3) If industrial tribunal procedure regulations include—\n(a) provision of the kind mentioned in paragraph (1); and\n(b) provision of the kind mentioned in Article 15(1)(a),\nthey shall also include provision to prevent an industrial tribunal exercising its powers under both kinds of provision in favour of the same person in the same proceedings.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "2003 NI 15"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1996/1921/article/15A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:41:38.076010+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."
}