{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tribunal-procedure-first-tier-tribunal-social-entitlement-chamber-rules-2008/article-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tribunal-procedure-first-tier-tribunal-social-entitlement-chamber-rules-2008/article-17.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/2685",
  "legislation_title": "The Tribunal Procedure (First-tier Tribunal) (Social Entitlement Chamber) Rules 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tribunal-procedure-first-tier-tribunal-social-entitlement-chamber-rules-2008",
  "path": "article/17",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Withdrawal",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a party may give notice of the withdrawal of its case, or any part of it—\n(a) ...by sending or delivering to the Tribunal a written notice of withdrawal; or\n(b) orally at a hearing.\n(2) In the circumstances described in paragraph (3), a notice of withdrawal will not take effect unless the Tribunal consents to the withdrawal.\n(3) The circumstances referred to in paragraph (2) are where a party gives notice of withdrawal—\n(a) ...in a criminal injuries compensation case;\n(b) in a social security and child support case where the Tribunal has directed that notice of withdrawal shall take effect only with the Tribunal's consent; or\n(c) at a hearing.\n(4) An application for a withdrawn case to be reinstated may be made by—\n(a) the party who withdrew the case;\n(b) where an appeal in a social security and child support case has been withdrawn, a respondent.\n(5) An application under paragraph (4) must be made in writing and be received by the Tribunal within 1 month after the earlier of—\n(a) the date on which the applicant was sent notice under paragraph (6) that the withdrawal had taken effect; or\n(b) if the applicant was present at the hearing when the case was withdrawn orally under paragraph (1)(b), the date of that hearing.\n(6) The Tribunal must notify each party in writing that a withdrawal has taken effect under this rule.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 17(1)(a) omitted (8.4.2013) by virtue of The Tribunal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2013 (S.I. 2013/477), rules 1(2)(a), 24(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in rule 17(3)(a) omitted (8.4.2013) by virtue of The Tribunal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2013 (S.I. 2013/477), rules 1(2)(a), 24(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Rule 17(3)(b)(c) substituted for rule 17(3)(b) and word (8.4.2013) by The Tribunal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2013 (S.I. 2013/477), rules 1(2)(a), 24(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Rule 17(4)(5) substituted (21.8.2015) by The Tribunal Procedure (Amendment) Rule 2015 (S.I. 2015/1510), rules 1, 14"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in rule 17(6) substituted (8.4.2013) by The Tribunal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2013 (S.I. 2013/477), rules 1(2)(a), 24(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/2685/article/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:23:29.519163+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."
}