Pre-hearing reviews and preliminary mattersF1U.K.
16(1)Tribunal rules may make provision for the carrying out by the Tribunal of a preliminary consideration of proceedings (a “pre-hearing review”).
(2)That provision may include—
(a)provision enabling such powers to be exercised on a pre-hearing review as may be specified in the rules;
(b)provision for security and supplemental provision relating to security.
(3)For the purposes of sub-paragraph (2)(b)—
(a)“provision for security” means provision authorising the Tribunal, in specified circumstances, to order a party to the proceedings, if he wishes to continue to participate in them, to pay a deposit not exceeding such sum as may be specified or calculated in a specified manner; and
(b)“supplemental provision”, in relation to security, means provision as to—
(i)the manner in which the amount of a deposit is to be determined;
(ii)the consequences of non-payment of a deposit;
(iii)the circumstances in which the deposit, or any part of it, may be refunded to the person who paid it or paid to another party to the proceedings.
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]