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Part · Procedure

38. Orders of tribunal

In plain English

A tribunal may order a party to pay money or do work. It may order payment if the work is not done in time. It may also dismiss the claim or make supporting orders. Money or work ordered cannot exceed the prescribed limit in value. The registrar must have the order served on the person it is against.

Summary · Drafted with AI, checked against the official text on 30 Sep 2026.

(1)

The tribunal may, as regards any claim within its jurisdiction, make one or more of the following orders and may include therein such stipulations and conditions (whether as to the time for, or made of, compliance or otherwise) as it thinks fit —

(a)

the tribunal may order a party to the proceedings to pay money to another party;

(b)

the tribunal may make a work order against any party to the proceedings;

(c)

the tribunal may make an order requiring a party to the proceedings to do anything referred to in paragraph (b) within such time as may be specified in the order and in default of his complying with that order to pay money to a person specified in the order;

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(d)

the tribunal may make an order dismissing the claim to which proceedings relate; and

(e)

the tribunal may make such ancillary orders as may be necessary to give effect to any order made by the tribunal.

(2)

The following provisions apply to an order made under subsection (1) —

(a)

an order made under subsection (1)(a) shall not require payment of money which exceeds the prescribed limit;

(b)

the value of the work required to be performed by the order shall not exceed the prescribed limit; and

(c)

the order may provide that, in default of compliance with the order within the time specified in it, the claimant may have the work needed to rectify the defect done by a competent person.

(3)

The Registrar shall arrange for a copy of an order made under subsection (1) to be served on the person against whom it is made as soon as practicable after the time that it is made.

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