28Pre-hearing reviews
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(1)Section 9 of the Employment Tribunals Act 1996 (pre-hearing reviews) is amended as follows.
(2)In subsection (1) (power to make provision for pre-hearing reviews), for paragraph (a) there is substituted—
“(a)for authorising an employment tribunal to carry out a review of any proceedings before it at any time before a hearing held for the purpose of determining them (a “pre-hearing review”),”.
(3)After subsection (2) there is inserted—
“(2A)Regulations under subsection (1)(b), so far as relating to striking out, may not provide for striking out on a ground which does not apply outside a pre-hearing review.”