Industrial Tribunals (now known as Employment Tribunals) Act 1996

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Jurisdiction	UK Non-devolved
Citation	1996 c. 17

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Employment Tribunals Act 1996
PART I: Employment Tribunals

Introductory

1: Employment tribunals

Jurisdiction

2: Enactments conferring jurisdiction on employment tribunals.
3: Power to confer further jurisdiction on employment tribunals.

Membership etc.

3A: Meaning of “Employment Judge”
4: Composition of a tribunal.
5: Remuneration, fees and allowances.
5A: Training etc.
5B: Members of employment tribunals: removal from office
5C: Oaths
5D: Judicial assistance

Procedure

6: Conduct of hearings.
7: Employment tribunal procedure regulations.
7A: Practice directions
7B: Mediation
8: Procedure in contract cases.
9: Pre-hearing reviews and preliminary matters.
10: National security.
10A: Confidential information.
10B: Restriction of publicity in cases involving national security.
11: Restriction of publicity in cases involving sexual misconduct.
12: Restriction of publicity in disability cases.

Financial penalties

12A: Financial penalties

Costs etc, interest and enforcement

13: Costs and expenses.
13A: Payments in respect of preparation time
14: Interest.
15: Enforcement.

Recoupment of social security benefits

16: Power to provide for recoupment of benefits.
17: Recoupment: further provisions.

Conciliation

18: Conciliation : relevant proceedings etc..
18A: Requirement to contact ACAS before instituting proceedings
18B: Conciliation before institution of proceedings: other ACAS duties
18C: Conciliation after institution of proceedings
19: Conciliation procedure.
19A: Conciliation: recovery of sums payable under settlements

Part II: The Employment Appeal Tribunal

Introductory

20: The Appeal Tribunal.

Jurisdiction

21: Jurisdiction of Appeal Tribunal.

Membership etc.

22: Membership of Appeal Tribunal.
23: Temporary membership.
24: Temporary additional judicial membership.
24A: Training etc. of members of Appeal Tribunal
24B: Oaths
25: Tenure of appointed members.
26: Staff.
27: Remuneration, pensions and allowances.
28: Composition of Appeal Tribunal.

Procedure

29: Conduct of hearings.
29A: Practice directions
30: Appeal Tribunal procedure rules.
31: Restriction of publicity in cases involving sexual misconduct.
32: Restriction of publicity in disability cases.
33: Restriction of vexatious proceedings.
34: Costs and expenses

Decisions and further appeals

35: Powers of Appeal Tribunal.
36: Enforcement of decisions etc.
37: Appeals from Appeal Tribunal.
37ZA: Appeals to Supreme Court: grant of certificate by Appeal Tribunal
37ZB: Appeals to Supreme Court: permission to appeal
37ZC: Appeals to Supreme Court: exclusions

PART 2A: Financial penalties for failure to pay sums ordered to be paid or settlement sums

37A: Sums to which financial penalty can relate

37B: Financial award: unpaid amount

37C: Settlement sum: unpaid amount

37D: Unpaid amount of relevant sum: further provision

37E: Warning notice

37F: Penalty notice

37G: Appeal against penalty notice

37H: Interest and recovery

37I: Withdrawal of warning notice

37J: Withdrawal of penalty notice

37K: Replacement penalty notice

37L: Effect of replacement penalty notice

37M: Enforcement officers
37N: Power to amend Part 2A

37O: Modification in particular cases

37P: Giving of notices

37Q: Financial penalties for non-payment: interpretation

Part III: Supplementary

Crown employment and Parliamentary staff

38: Crown employment.
39: Parliamentary staff.

General

40: Power to amend Act.
41: Orders, regulations and rules.
42: Interpretation.

Final provisions

43: Consequential amendments.
44: Transitionals, savings and transitory provisions.
45: Repeals and revocations.
46: Commencement.
47: Extent.
48: Short title.

SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 1 Section 43.
Consequential amendments

The Transport Act 1968 (c.73)
The Transport Holding Company Act 1972 (c.14)
The Sex Discrimination Act 1975 (c.65)
The Race Relations Act 1976 (c.74)
The Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Act 1977 (c.3)
The Judicial Pensions Act 1981 (c.20)
The Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c.5)
The Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 (c.52)
The Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1992 (c.53)
The Judicial Pensions and Retirement Act 1993 (c.8)
The Pension Schemes Act 1993 (c.48)
The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (c.50)

SCHEDULE 2 Section 44.
Transitional provisions, savings and transitory provisions

Part I: Transitional provisions and savings
Part II: Transitory provisions

SCHEDULE 3 Section 45.
Repeals and revocations

Part I: Repeals
Part II: Revocations: NumberTitleExtent of revocationS.I. 1983/1794.The Equal Pay (Amendment) Regulations 1983.Regulation 3(3) and (4).S.I. 1995/2587.The Collective Redundancies and Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) (Amendment) Regulations 1995.Regulation 12(3).Regulation 13(3).In Regulation 14(4), the words “, and paragraph 2(2) of Schedule 9 to,".

Employment Tribunals Act 1996

1996 c. 17

An Act to consolidate enactments relating to employment tribunals and the Employment Appeal...

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