The Employment Tribunals (Constitution and Rules of Procedure) (Scotland) Regulations 2001

Miscellaneous powers

14.—(1) The tribunal may if thinks fit—

(a)extend the time appointed by these rules for doing any act notwithstanding that the time appointed may have expired;

(b)before granting an application referred to in rule 6(1), 6(3), 7(1) or 15, require the party making the application to give notice thereof to the other party;

(c)postpone the day or time fixed for, or adjourn the hearing of, any appeal or application;

(d)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 that the appeal is not contested to the Secretary and to the appellant, dismiss or allow the appeal, as the case may be, and thereupon rule 13 shall apply;

(e)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)(b) 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) Subject to the provisions of these rules the tribunal may regulate its own procedure.

(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; and

(b)an act required or authorised to be so done by rule 10 or 12 which the rule implies is to be done by the tribunal which is hearing or heard the appeal.

(5) Any functions of the Secretary other than those mentioned in rules 5 and 12 may be performed by an Assistant Secretary.