Part 2: Courts, tribunals and coroners Chapter 3: Employment Tribunals Section 34: Employment Tribunal Procedure Rules
This section (together with Schedule 5, which it introduces) makes provision for there to be Employment Tribunal Procedure Rules, to be made by the Tribunal Procedure Committee, replacing the powers of the Secretary of State and Lord Chancellor to make employment tribunal procedure regulations and Employment Appeal Tribunal rules respectively.
	Subsections (1) to (4) make the main provision to replace/transfer the powers, replacing existing sections 7 and 30 of the Employment Tribunals Act 1996 (the 1996 Act), which respectively provide for employment tribunal procedure regulations and Employment Appeal Tribunal rules, with new sections providing for "Procedure Rules" to govern practice and procedure in the employment tribunals (section 7) and Employment Appeal Tribunal (section 30), and inserting into the 1996 Act a new section 37QA which provides that there are to be Employment Appeal Tribunal Procedure Rules made by the Tribunal Procedure Committee, and that "Procedure Rules" in the 1996 Act as amended means those rules.
	Subsection (1) is introductory and provides for the 1996 Act to be amended as provided by subsections (2) to (4).
	Subsection (2) substitutes for section 7 of the 1996 Act a new section 7 which provides that Procedure Rules are to govern the practice and procedure to be followed in the ETs.
	Subsection (3) similarly substitutes for section 30 of the 1996 Act a new section 30, subsection (1) of which provides that Procedure Rules are to govern the practice and procedure to be followed in the EAT, while subsection (2) provides that the EAT (which is, by virtue of section 20 of the 1996 Act a superior court of record) retains the power to regulate its own practices and procedures, subject to Procedure Rules, practice directions made under section 29A(1) and any other provision made by or under an enactment.
	Subsection (4) inserts into the 1996 Act a new section 37QA which (together with new Schedule A1 which it introduces into the 1996 Act) provides for the power to make Employment Tribunal Procedure Rules, how such rules are to be made and what they may contain. Subsection (1) of the new section provides that there are to be Employment Tribunal Procedure Rules made by the Tribunal Procedure Committee; subsection (2) provides that the term "Procedure Rules" used in the Act means such rules; subsection (3) introduces Schedule A1, which makes provision about the making of Employment Tribunal Procedure Rules and what they may contain which corresponds to that made for Tribunal Procedure Rules by Schedule 5 to the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007; and subsection (4) makes it clear that the breadth of the power to make rules is not constrained by any other provision which states what the rules may or must contain.
	Subsection (5) introduces Schedule 5, which contains further provisions in connection with the provision made by the rest of the section (including consequential amendments ensuring that things which may be done by or which relate to employment tribunal procedure regulations may be done by, or relate to, Employment Tribunal Procedure Rules).