- Assistant Secretary
means the person for the time being acting as the secretary of a Regional Office of the Industrial Tribunals;
- chairman
means the President or a member of the panel of chairmen selected in accordance with regulation 7(1), or the President where a Minister of the Crown so directs in accordance with section 128(6) of the 1978 Act;
- equal value claim
means a claim by an applicant which rests upon entitlement to the benefit of an equality clause by virtue of the operation of section 1(2)(c) of the Equal Pay Act;
- expert
means a member of the panel of independent experts within the meaning of section 2A(4) of the Equal Pay Act;
- hearing
means a sitting of a tribunal duly constituted for the purpose of receiving evidence, hearing addresses and witnesses or doing anything lawfully requisite to enable the tribunal to reach a decision on any question;
- improvement notice
means a notice under section 21 of the 1974 Act;
- inspector
means a person appointed under section 19(1) of the 1974 Act;
- levy
means a levy imposed under section 11 of the 1982 Act.
- non-discrimination notice
means a notice under section 67 of the 1975 Act or, as the case may be, under section 58 of the 1976 Act;
- panel of chairmen
means the panel appointed under regulation 5(1)(a);
- prohibition notice
means a notice under section 22 of the 1974 Act;
- Regional Chairman
means a member of the panel of chairmen who has been appointed to the position of Regional Chairman in accordance with regulation 6 (1) or who has been nominated to discharge the functions of a Regional Chairman in accordance with regulation 6(2);
- Regional Office of the Industrial Tribunals
means a regional office which has been established under the Office of the Tribunals for an area specified by the President;
- Register
means the Register of Applications, appeals and decisions kept in pursuance of regulation 9;
- report
means a report required by a tribunal to be prepared by an expert, pursuant to section 2A(1)(b) of the Equal Pay Act;
- respondent
means the inspector who issued the improvement notice or prohibition notice which is the subject of the appeal.
- the 1970 Act
means the Equal Pay Act 1970;
- the 1974 Act
means the Health and Safety at Work etc.
- the 1975 Act
means the Sex Discrimination Act 1975;
- the 1976 Act
means the Race Relations Act 1976;
- the 1978 Act
means the Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978;
- the 1982 Act
means the Industrial Training Act 1982;
- the 1986 Act
means the Sex Discrimination Act 1986;
- the 1992 Act
means the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 • “Assistant Secretary” means the person for the time being acting as the secretary of a Regional Office of the Industrial Tribunals;
- the Board
means in relation to an appeal the respondent industrial training board;
- the clerk
means the person appointed as clerk to the tribunal by the Secretary of the Tribunals or an Assistant Secretary to act in that capacity at one or more hearings;
- the Lord President
means the Lord President of the Court of Session. • “the Office of the Tribunals” means the Central Office of the Industrial Tribunals (Scotland);
- the Office of the Tribunals
means the Central Office of the Industrial Tribunals (Scotland);
- the President
means the President of the Industrial Tribunals (Scotland) or the person nominated by the Lord President to discharge for the time being the functions of the President;
- the projected date
means the date most recently specified by the expert, in a notice given under paragraph (5) or (8) or in a progress report sent to the tribunal under paragraph (9), as the date by which he expects to send his report to the tribunal.
- the Secretary
means the person for the time being appointed to act as the Secretary of the Office of the Tribunals;
- tribunal
means an industrial tribunal (Scotland) established in pursuance of regulation 4 and in relation to any proceedings means the tribunal to which the proceedings have been referred by the President or a Regional Chairman.