The Employment Tribunals (Constitution and Rules of Procedure) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2000

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Employment Tribunals (Constitution and Rules of Procedure) (Scotland) Regulations 1993 (“the Principal Regulations”). The amendments relate to the amount of information to be placed by the Secretary on the Register, which is open to public inspection, in relation in particular to applications and appeals.

Rule 2 of Schedule 1 to the Principal Regulations is amended to provide that the following details of an originating application are to be entered in the Register—

(a) the case number;

(b) the date the Secretary received the application;

(c) the name and addres of the applicant;

(d) the name and address of the respondent;

(e) the Regional Office of the Employment Tribunals dealing with the application; and

(f) the type of claim brought in general terms without reference to its particulars.

Similar amendments are included to the rules in Schedules 3, 4 and 5 to the Principal Regulations. These Schedules relate to appeals by a person assessed to levy imposed under a levy order under section 12 of the Industrial Training Act 1982, appeals against an improvement or prohibition notice under section 24 of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 and appeals against a non-discrimination notice under section 68 of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 or section 59 of the Race Relations Act 1976.

These Regulations include transitional provision in regulation 10.