Schedules Schedule 4: Online Procedure: amendments
Schedule 4 makes amendments to the Employment Tribunals Act 1996, Civil Procedure Act 1997, Courts Act 2003 and Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 in relation to the power to make Employment Tribunal Procedure Rules, Civil Procedure Rules, Family Procedure Rules and Tribunal Procedure Rules respectively, and practice directions associated with those Rules, in order to ensure that "standard" Rules and Online Procedure Rules, and their associated practice directions, do not cut across each other. The amendments make similar provision for each Act amended, in each case (a) requiring the Rules to be framed so that they do not govern practice and procedure in "online proceedings" (by which is meant proceedings which have been specified for the purposes of section 19/OP2) except in so far as those proceedings are not, or cease to be, governed by Online Procedure Rules; and (b) making it clear that practice directions made under the powers in those Acts do not apply in relation to proceedings which are governed by Online Procedure Rules.