SCHEDULE 4THE EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (LEVY APPEALS) RULES OF PROCEDURE (SCOTLAND)for use only in proceedings on levy appeals

Decision of tribunal12

1

Where a tribunal is composed of three members its decision may be taken by a majority; and if a tribunal is composed of two members only, the chairman shall have a second or casting vote.

2

The decision of a tribunal shall be recorded in a document signed by the chairman which shall contain the reasons for the decision.

3

The clerk shall transmit the document signed by the chairman to the Secretary who shall enter it in the Register, and shall send a copy of the entry to the appellant and the Board.

4

The reasons for the decision shall be omitted from the Register in any case in which—

a

evidence has been heard in private and the tribunal so directs, or

b

the tribunal on the application of the appellant so directs on the ground that disclosure will be contrary to the interests of the appellant.

5

The chairman of the tribunal shall have power by certificate to correct in the document recording the tribunal’s decision clerical mistakes or errors arising therein from any accidental slip or omission.

6

The clerk shall send a copy of any document so corrected and the certificate of the chairman to the Secretary who shall thereupon make such correction as may be necessary in the Register and shall send a copy of the corrected entry or the corrected reasons, as the case may be, to the appellant and the Board.