Requirement to deal with tips, gratuities and service charges Section 9: Code of practice about tips etc Failure to comply with code of practice
Section 27T(1) provides that a code of practice issued under this Part shall be admissible in evidence in proceedings before an employment tribunal.
	Section 27T(1) also provides that, where any provision of the code appears to the tribunal to be relevant to a question which arises in a set of proceedings, the tribunal is required to take that provision of the code into account when determining that question. However, a failure by an employer to observe the code does not, in itself, mean that the employer will be liable to a worker. For example, there may be particular circumstances relating to an employer or a place of business which would make an allocation of qualifying tips fair in circumstances where, generally, it would not be.