Labour Tribunal Ordinance

(1)
Except where a party has filed an application for leave to appeal and does not agree to withdraw the application, a presiding officer may, within 14 days from the date of an award or order given or made by him, review the award or order and on such review may re-open and re-hear the claim wholly or in part and may call or hear fresh evidence and may confirm, vary or reverse his previous award or order.
(Amended
29 of 1974 s. 2
)
(2)
The power conferred by subsection (1) may be
exercised—
(a)
by a presiding officer of his own motion, on notice in the prescribed form to all parties;
(b)
on the application of a party within 7 days, on notice in the prescribed form to all other parties.
(3)
The exercise of the power conferred by subsection (1) shall not operate as a bar to appeal by a party against the award or order or thereafter against the determination of the review.
(4)
After a party has applied for a review of an award or order, the presiding officer may order the applicant to give security for the payment of any award or order that has been or may be made if the presiding officer considers it just and expedient to do so.
(Replaced
20 of 2014 s. 14
)
(4A)
The presiding officer may make the order either of the presiding officer’s own motion or on the application of a party.
(Added
20 of 2014 s. 14
)
(4B)
The order may require security to be
given—
(a)
by payment into the tribunal a sum of money that the presiding officer considers sufficient; or
(b)
in any other form and manner that the presiding officer considers appropriate.
(Added
20 of 2014 s. 14
)
(4C)
Without limiting subsection (4), the presiding officer may exercise the power under that subsection if the presiding officer is satisfied
that—
(a)
the application for a review of an award or
order—
(i)
is devoid of merit; or
(ii)
is made to delay the process; or
(b)
assets that may be available to satisfy an award or order may be disposed of to the prejudice of any party.
(Added
20 of 2014 s. 14
)
(4D)
If a party fails to comply with an order under subsection (4), the presiding officer may dismiss the application for review.
(Added
20 of 2014 s. 14
)
(4E)
On a party’s failure to comply with an order under subsection (4), the presiding officer may dismiss the application for review under subsection (4D) without further hearing or considering the party’s case if the order expressly indicates the presiding officer’s intention to do so on such non-compliance without further hearing or consideration.
(Added
20 of 2014 s. 14
)
(5)
A presiding officer may transfer the hearing and consideration of a review to another presiding officer who shall have all the powers and functions which he would have if he had originally heard the claim and had prepared the record of proceedings.