Clause 26 - Determination without a hearing
Employment Bill
6:45 pm
Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede and Weybridge, Conservative)
The hon. Gentleman makes an excellent point and raises a circumstance that I had not envisaged. However, he does not address the substance of my argument that the Government made it clear in the explanatory notes that the regulations will, in practice, prescribe as the sole circumstance a situation in which both parties agree. The regulations that the Government have mind would not deal with a case in which one party had done a runner. That would have to be dealt with under section 28 of the pre-hearing review.