§ Amendments made: No. 16, in page 33, line 38, at end insert "and".
§ No. 17, in page 33, leave out lines 39 to 43.
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No. 18, in page 33, line 46, at end insert—
'(4) In that section, the existing provision (as amended by subsection (3)) becomes subsection (1) and at the end there is inserted—
(2) If employment tribunal procedure regulations include provision postponing the fixing of a time and place for a hearing for the purpose of giving an opportunity for the proceedings to be settled by way of conciliation and withdrawn, they shall also include provision for the parties to proceedings to which the provision for
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postponement applies to be notified that the services of a conciliation officer may no longer be available to them after the end of the postponement."'.—[Mr. Sutcliffe.]