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Employment Tribunals Act 1996

PART 2A Financial penalties for failure to pay sums ordered to be paid or settlement sums

  • Section 37A Sums to which financial penalty can relate
  • Section 37B Financial award: unpaid amount
  • Section 37C Settlement sum: unpaid amount
  • Section 37D Unpaid amount of relevant sum: further provision
  • Section 37E Warning notice
  • Section 37F Penalty notice
  • Section 37G Appeal against penalty notice
  • Section 37H Interest and recovery
  • Section 37I Withdrawal of warning notice
  • Section 37J Withdrawal of penalty notice
  • Section 37K Replacement penalty notice
  • Section 37L Effect of replacement penalty notice
  • Section 37M Enforcement officers
  • Section 37N Power to amend Part 2A
  • Section 37O Modification in particular cases
  • Section 37P Giving of notices
  • Section 37Q Financial penalties for non-payment: interpretation
  1. Part 2A
  2. Replacement penalty notice

Section 37K | Replacement penalty notice F1

From legislation.gov.uk

(1)Where the Secretary of State—F1F2F3

(a)withdraws a penalty notice (“the original penalty notice”) under section 37J, andF1

(b)is satisfied that the employer failed to pay the specified amount in full before the specified date in accordance with the warning notice in relation to which the original penalty notice was given,F1

the Secretary of State may at the same time give another penalty notice in relation to the warning notice (“the replacement penalty notice”).

(2)The replacement penalty notice must—F1

(a)indicate the differences between it and the original penalty notice that the enforcement officer reasonably considers material, andF1

(b)indicate the effect of section 37L.F1

(3)Failure to comply with subsection (2) does not make the replacement penalty notice ineffective.F1

(4)Where a replacement penalty notice is withdrawn under section 37J, no further replacement penalty notice may be given under subsection (1) pursuant to the withdrawal.F1

(5)Nothing in this section affects any power that arises apart from this section to give a penalty notice.F1

Notes

  1. F1

    Pt. 2A inserted (6.4.2016) by Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (c. 26), ss. 150(2), 164(1) (with s. 150(8)); S.I. 2016/321, reg. 3(d)

  2. F2

    Words in s. 37K(1) substituted (7.4.2026) by Employment Rights Act 2025 (c. 36), s. 159(3), Sch. 10 para. 12(a) (with s. 147, Sch. 11); S.I. 2026/323, reg. 4(1)(55)(a)

  3. F3

    Words in s. 37K(1) substituted (7.4.2026) by Employment Rights Act 2025 (c. 36), s. 159(3), Sch. 10 para. 12(b) (with s. 147, Sch. 11); S.I. 2026/323, reg. 4(1)(55)(a)

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