Employment Tribunals Act 1996, Section 9 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 08 March 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
[F2(1)If Procedure Rules authorise an employment tribunal to carry out a preliminary hearing, Procedure Rules may make provision for enabling such powers as may be prescribed by the Rules to be exercised in connection with the hearing.]
(2)Such [F3Rules] may in particular include provision—
(a)for authorising any tribunal carrying out a [F4preliminary hearing] F5... to make, in circumstances specified in the [F6Rules], an order requiring a party to the proceedings in questionF7... to pay a deposit F8... [F9as a condition of—
(i)continuing to participate in those proceedings, or
(ii)pursuing any specified allegations or arguments], and
(b)for prescribing—
(i)the manner in which the amount of any such deposit is to be determined in any particular case,
(ii)the consequences of non-payment of any such deposit, and
(iii)the circumstances in which any such deposit, or any part of it, may be refunded to the party who paid it or be paid over to another party to the proceedings.
[F10(2ZA)Procedure Rules of the kind mentioned in subsection (2)(a) may not provide for a deposit of an amount exceeding £1,000.]
[F11(2A)Procedure Rules may not enable a power of striking out to be exercised in a preliminary hearing on a ground which does not apply outside a preliminary hearing.]
(3)The [F12Lord Chancellor] may from time to time by order substitute for the sum specified in subsection [F13(2ZA)] such other sum as is specified in the order.
F14(4). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
[F15(5)In this section “preliminary hearing” means a hearing in any proceedings before an employment tribunal which takes place at a time before a hearing held for the purpose of determining them.]
Textual Amendments
F1S. 9 heading substituted (25.4.2024) by Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (c. 35), s. 51(4), Sch. 5 para. 5(2); S.I. 2024/568, reg. 2(b)(ii)
F2S. 9(1) substituted (25.4.2024) by Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (c. 35), s. 51(4), Sch. 5 para. 5(3); S.I. 2024/568, reg. 2(b)(ii)
F3Word in s. 9(2) substituted (25.4.2024) by Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (c. 35), s. 51(4), Sch. 5 para. 5(4)(a); S.I. 2024/568, reg. 2(b)(ii)
F4Words in s. 9(2)(a) substituted (25.4.2024) by Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (c. 35), s. 51(4), Sch. 5 para. 5(4)(b)(i); S.I. 2024/568, reg. 2(b)(ii)
F5Words in s. 9(2)(a) omitted (25.4.2024) by virtue of Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (c. 35), s. 51(4), Sch. 5 para. 5(4)(b)(ii); S.I. 2024/568, reg. 2(b)(ii)
F6Word in s. 9(2)(a) substituted (25.4.2024) by Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (c. 35), s. 51(4), Sch. 5 para. 5(4)(b)(iii); S.I. 2024/568, reg. 2(b)(ii)
F7Words in s. 9(2)(a) omitted (25.6.2013) by virtue of Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (c. 24), ss. 21(2)(a), 103(2)
F8Words in s. 9(2)(a) omitted (25.4.2024) by virtue of Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (c. 35), s. 51(4), Sch. 5 para. 5(4)(b)(iv); S.I. 2024/568, reg. 2(b)(ii)
F9Words in s. 9(2)(a) inserted (25.6.2013) by Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (c. 24), ss. 21(2)(b), 103(2)
F10S. 9(2ZA) inserted (25.4.2024) by Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (c. 35), s. 51(4), Sch. 5 para. 5(5); S.I. 2024/568, reg. 2(b)(ii)
F11S. 9(2A) substituted (25.4.2024) by Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (c. 35), s. 51(4), Sch. 5 para. 5(6); S.I. 2024/568, reg. 2(b)(ii)
F12Words in s. 9(3) substituted (25.4.2024) by Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (c. 35), s. 51(4), Sch. 5 para. 5(7)(a); S.I. 2024/568, reg. 2(b)(ii)
F13Word in s. 9(3) substituted (25.4.2024) by Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (c. 35), s. 51(4), Sch. 5 para. 5(7)(b); S.I. 2024/568, reg. 2(b)(ii)
F14S. 9(4) omitted (25.4.2024) by virtue of Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (c. 35), s. 51(4), Sch. 5 para. 5(8); S.I. 2024/568, reg. 2(b)(ii)
F15S. 9(5) inserted (25.4.2024) by Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (c. 35), s. 51(4), Sch. 5 para. 5(9); S.I. 2024/568, reg. 2(b)(ii)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 9 extended (24.4.2000) by 1992 c. 52, s. 239(4)(c) (as inserted (24.4.2000) by 1999 c. 26, s. 16, Sch. 5 para. 4; S.I. 2000/875, art. 2 (subject to transitional provision in art. 3))
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