Part 2Courts, tribunals and coroners

Chapter 2Online procedure

24Power to make certain provision about dispute-resolution services

(1)

This section applies to Online Procedure Rules which provide—

(a)

for the transfer by electronic means of information held for the purposes of an online dispute-resolution service to a court or tribunal, or

(b)

for a court or tribunal to take into account, for any purpose, steps that a party to proceedings has or has not taken in relation to an online dispute-resolution service.

(2)

The Rules may be expressed so that their application in relation to a particular service depends on things done by a particular person from time to time.

(3)

The Rules may, for example, refer to such services as—

(a)

appear from time to time in a list published by a particular person, or

(b)

are from time to time certified by a particular person as complying with particular standards.

(4)

In this section—

“online dispute-resolution service” means a service accessible by electronic means for facilitating the resolution of disputes without legal proceedings;

“particular person” and “particular standards” include, respectively, a person of a particular description and standards of a particular description.