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SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 4U.K.Tribunal: procedure

Part 2 U.K.Tribunal rules

13U.K.Tribunal rules may provide for the Tribunal—

(a)to reject the whole of any proceedings under section 47B of the 1998 Act if it considers that the person bringing the proceedings is not entitled to do so or that the proceedings do not satisfy the requirements of section 47B(1);

(b)to reject any claim which is included in proceedings under section 47B if it considers that—

(i)the claim is not a consumer claim (within the meaning of section 47B(2)) which may be included in such proceedings; or

(ii)the individual concerned has not consented to its being made or continued on his behalf in such proceedings; or

(c)to reject any claim made under section 47A of the 1998 Act or included in proceedings under section 47B of that Act if it considers that there are no reasonable grounds for making it.

Textual Amendments applied to the whole legislation

F1Act: for the words "solicitor of the Supreme Court of Northern Ireland" wherever they occur there is substituted (prosp.) the words "solicitor of the Court of Judicature of Northern Ireland" by virtue of Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 59, 148(1), Sch. 11 para. 5 [Editorial Note: this amendment will be carried through into the text of the Act at the same time as any other effects on the Act for the year in which the relevant commencement order (or first such order) is made]