Part 2: Courts, tribunals and coroners Chapter 2: Online procedure Section 24: Power to make certain provision about dispute-resolution services
This section will enable the Online Procedure Rule Committee (OPRC) to have greater flexibility in relation to pre-action behaviour by prospective litigants, by allowing Online Procedure Rules to refer to things done by third parties rather than having to spell out the details in the Rules themselves.
	Subsection (1) sets out which Online Procedure Rules the section applies to - those which provide for electronic transfer of information from a pre-action dispute resolution service to the court or tribunal (enabling "plugging in" to court or tribunal proceedings), or for a court or tribunal to take into account the engagement (or otherwise) of parties with such a pre-action dispute resolution service (similarly to pre-action protocols under existing rules).
	Subsection (2) allows for the Rules to be expressed so that the way in which they apply in relation to any pre-action dispute resolution service depends on things done from time to time by a particular person; and subsection (3) sets out two specific examples - that the Rules might refer to online dispute resolution services which appear on an externally provided list as meeting the standards, or are certified by a specified person as meeting the standards, without the Committee having to accredit the services itself, or having to maintain a list in the Rules of accredited providers. Subsection (4) defines terms used in the section.