Part 2: Courts, tribunals and coroners Chapter 3: Employment Tribunals Section 37: Exercise of tribunal functions by authorised persons
This section amends Chapter 2A of Part 1 of the Tribunal, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 so that the ability of authorised case officers to perform certain judicial functions, where authorised by Tribunal Procedure Rules, which is allowed for by that Chapter, is extended to include case officers so authorised by Employment Tribunal Procedure Rules.
	Subsection (1) is introductory and provides for Chapter 2A of the 2007 Act to be amended as provided in the following subsections.
	Subsection (2) makes the main changes to effect the extension. These are to amend the definitions of terms presently used in Chapter 2A so that they are broadened to include references to (for example) a "relevant Procedure Rule", and then providing a definition of the new terms which includes both Tribunal Procedure Rules and Employment Procedure Tribunal Rules (and also include employment tribunals and the Employment Appeal Tribunal as well as the First-tier Tribunal and Upper Tribunal).
	Subsection (3) substitutes in a number of places in Chapter 2A the more broadly defined term "a relevant procedure Rule" for the existing wording which captures only Tribunal Procedure Rules.