The Employment Appeal Tribunal (Amendment) Rules 2001

Amendment of rules

18.  In rule 29—

(a) in paragraph (1)—

(i) for the words “rule 30”, substitute the words “any direction of a Minister of the Crown under rule 30A(1)(a) or order of the Appeal Tribunal under rule 30A(2)(a) read with rule 30A(1)(a),”; and

(ii) for the words “paragraph 16 of Schedule 11”, substitute the words “section 28 of the 1996 Act”; and

(b) for paragraph (2), substitute—

“(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), the Appeal Tribunal may sit in private for the purpose of hearing evidence from any person which in the opinion of the Tribunal is likely to consist of—

(a) information which he could not disclose without contravening a prohibition imposed by or by virtue of any enactment;

(b) information which has been communicated to him in confidence or which he has otherwise obtained in consequence of the confidence reposed in him by another person; or

(c) information the disclosure of which would, for reasons other than its effect on negotiations with respect to any of the matters mentioned in section 178(2) of the 1992 Act, cause substantial injury to any undertaking of his or in which he works.”.