Part 7: Miscellaneous Background Enforcement of ACAS brokered agreements
639.The Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS) has no enforcement powers of its own. Transforming Public Services undertook to simplify the system so that an award of compensation, whether ordered by an employment tribunal or agreed between the parties (under compromises involving ACAS), can be enforced with the minimum of bureaucracy as if it were an order of the civil courts. The Act makes such agreements enforceable in England and Wales as if they were sums payable under a county court order, and in Scotland by diligence as if the certificate were an extract registered decree arbitral bearing a warrant of execution issued by the sheriff court.