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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

2001 No. 237

EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS

The Employment Tribunals (Increase of Maximum Deposit) Order 2001

  Made 30th January 2001 
  Laid before Parliament 31st January 2001 
  Coming into force 23rd February 2001 

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the power conferred on him by section 9(3) of the Employment Tribunals Act 1996[1], hereby makes the following Order: - 

Citation and commencement
     1. This Order may be cited as the Employment Tribunals (Increase of Maximum Deposit) Order 2001 and shall come into force on 23rd February 2001.

Increase of Maximum Deposit
     2. For the sum specified in section 9(2)(a) of the Employment Tribunals Act 1996, there is substituted the sum of £500.


Alan Johnson
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Competitiveness, Department of Trade and Industry

30th January 2001


EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)


Section 9(3) of the Employment Tribunals Act 1996 gives the Secretary of State power by order to substitute for the sum specified in section 9(2)(a) of that Act such other sum as is specified in the order. The sum is the maximum amount which an employment tribunal may be authorised to require a party to proceedings to pay by way of deposit, if that party wishes to continue to participate in those proceedings following a pre-hearing review.

This Order increases the sum in section 9(2)(a) of the Employment Tribunals Act 1996 from £150 to £500.

Notes:

 [1] 1996 c. 17.back


ISBN 0 11 019183 8


 © Crown copyright 2001

Prepared 6 February 2001

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