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

Miscellaneous powers

14.—(1) Subject to the provisions of these Rules, a tribunal may regulate its own procedure.

(2) The tribunal may –

(a) before granting an application referred to in rule 6(1) or (3), require the party making the application to give notice thereof to the other party;

(b) if at any time after the entry of the appeal in the Register the appellant gives notice of the abandonment of his appeal to the Secretary and to the Board, or the Board gives notice to the Secretary and to the appellant that the appeal is not contested, dismiss or allow the appeal, as the case may be, and thereupon rule 13 shall apply;

(c) if the appellant and the Board agree in writing upon the terms of a decision to be made by the tribunal, decide accordingly.

(2) A notice under paragraph (1)(a) shall give particulars of the application and indicate the address to which and the time within which any objection to the application shall be made, being an address and time specified by the tribunal for the purposes of the application.

(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 hearing of an appeal under rule 9; or

(b) an act required or authorised to be so done by rule 10 or 11 which the rule implies is to be done by the tribunal which is hearing or heard the appeal;

(c) the hearing of an application under rule 12(1), and the variation or revocation of a decision, and ordering of a re-hearing, under rule 12(7).