Industrial Tribunals (Constitution and Rules of Procedure) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004

Modification of rule 12 of Schedule 1

4.  In rule 12 of Schedule 1 (decision of tribunal) –

(a)after paragraph (4), insert –

(4A) There shall be appended to the document referred to in paragraph (3) a copy of the report (if any) of an expert received by the tribunal in the course of the proceedings.;

(b)for paragraph (5) substitute –

(5) The clerk shall transmit the documents referred to in paragraphs (2) and (3) and the copy of the report referred to in paragraph (4A), if any, to the Secretary who shall enter them in the Register and shall send a copy of the entry to each of the parties and, where the proceedings were referred to the tribunal by a court, to that court.; and

(c)for paragraph (6) substitute –

(6) The document referred to in paragraph (3) and the copy of the report referred to in paragraph (4A), if any, shall be omitted from the Register in any case in which evidence had been heard in private and the tribunal so directs. In such a case the Secretary shall send that document to each of the parties; and where there are proceedings before a superior court relating to the decision in question, he shall send the document to that court, together with a copy of the entry in the Register of the document referred to in paragraph (2).