SCHEDULE 5INDUSTRIAL TRIBUNALS (IMPROVEMENT AND PROHIBITION NOTICES APPEALS) RULES OF PROCEDURE

Miscellaneous powers12

1

Subject to the provisions of these Rules, a tribunal may regulate its own procedure.

2

A tribunal may –

a

before granting an application under rule 5 or 10 require the party making the application to give notice thereof to the other party;

b

either on the application of any person or of its own motion, direct any other person to be joined as a party to the appeal (giving such consequential directions as it considers necessary), but may do so only after having given to the person proposed to be joined a reasonable opportunity of making written or oral objection;

c

make any necessary amendments to the description of a party in the Register and in other documents relating to the appeal;

d

if the appellant shall at any time give notice of the abandonment of his appeal, dismiss the appeal;

e

if the parties agree in writing upon the terms of a decision to be made by the tribunal, decide accordingly.

3

A chairman may postpone the day or time fixed for, or adjourn, any hearing and vary any such postponement or adjournment.

4

Any act required or authorised by these Rules to be done by a tribunal may be done by a chairman except –

a

the granting of an extension of time under rule 2(2);

b

the hearing of an appeal under rule 7;

c

an act required or authorised to be so done by rule 8 or 9 which the rule implies is to be done by the tribunal which is hearing or heard the appeal;

d

the hearing of an application under rule 10(1), and the variation or revocation of a decision, and ordering of a re-hearing, under rule 10(7).