Withdrawal of proceedingsF1U.K.
21(1)Tribunal rules may make provision—
(a)preventing a party who has instituted proceedings from withdrawing them without the permission of the Tribunal or, in specified circumstances, the President or the Registrar;
(b)for the Tribunal to grant permission to withdraw proceedings on such conditions as it considers appropriate;
(c)enabling the Tribunal to publish any decision which it would have made in any proceedings, had the proceedings not been withdrawn;
(d)as to the effect of withdrawal of proceedings; and
(e)as to the procedure to be followed if parties to proceedings agree to settle.
(2)Tribunal rules may make, in relation to a claim included in proceedings under section 47B of the 1998 Act, any provision which may be made under sub-paragraph (1) in relation to the whole 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]