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The Law On Labour Disputes (Labour Dispute Law)

Original Language Title: Lov om arbeidstvister (arbeidstvistloven)

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Law of labour litigation (the labor law)

Date LO-2012-01-27-9
Ministry of Work and Social Affairs
Last modified LAW-2015 -06-19-65 from 01.10.2015
Published In 2012 booklet 3
Istrontrecation 01.03.2012
Changing LO-1927-05-05-1
Announcement 27.01.2012 at 15.40
Card title The work-of-state law arbtvl.

Capital overview :

Jf. former laws 6 aug 1915 # 2. 5 May 1927 # 1.

Chapter 1. Initial provisions

SECTION 1. Definitions

In this law, it is meant by :

a) work holder : any performing work in someone else's service and who do not go in under law on public service activists.
b) employer : any person who has employed work holder to perform work in its service.
c) union : Any convergence of Workers or of Working-owned organisations that have for purpose to be in the interests of the workers ' interests facing their employers.
d) employer association : Any convergence of employers or work-employed organisations that have for purpose to have to be in the interests of the employer of their workers.
e) tariffagreement : an agreement between a trade union and an employer or employer association about labor and salary conditions or other working conditions.
f) strike : whole or partially work-stopping as workers in communities or in understanding with each other commit to force a solution of a dispute between a union and an employer or employer association. As the clause of a strike is also considered when the person's company is being sought suspended for labor.
g) lockout : whole or partially working-time as an employer commits to force a resolution of a dispute between an employer or employer association and a union, without regard to whether other workers are taken in instead of the lock-up. As the clause of a lokout is also considered when the lock-up work-makers are sought to prevent from getting any other work.
h) space termination : termination of work agreements with the purpose of committing strike or lockout.
in) litigation : dispute between a trade union and an employer or employer association about a tariffagreement's validity, understanding or existence or about claims that build on a tariff agreement.
j) stakeholder : dispute between a trade union and an employer or employer association about the arrangement of future employment and salary conditions or other working conditions that are not reselected by a tariff agreement or to relieve a previous tariff agreement.
SECTION 2. Illumination alike

The union and employer association or the convergence of such shall when the ministry or the wealth broker requires it, provide information on the federation's or conservation organization, member conditions mv. a convergence of organisations duties to provide such information also about its sub-departments.

Chapter 2. TariffAgreements

SECTION 3. Negotiations on the impacts of tariffagreement

The union, employer, employer association or convergence of such can be claimed for negotiations with aim to strike or revise a tariff agreement. If the opposing party does not meet until negotiations or the negotiations do not lead to the introduction of a new or revised tariff agreement, strike or lockouts can be committed when the terms set forth by Section 18 and 25 are met.

SECTION 4. Tariffagreement shape and content

A tariff agreement shall be created in writing and should include provisions of the Commencement of Commencement, duration, and termination deadline.

SECTION 5. Tariffagreement duration and termination
(1) With less otherwise determined, the tariff agreement applies for three years the rain from the day it was signed.
(2) The Termination of tariffAgreement shall be made in writing and the latest three months prior to the agreement expires, unless otherwise the notice deadline is set.
(3) Be a tariffagreement not said up within the deadline, extended it by one year.
SECTION 6. Tariffagreement's unrigibility

The provisions of the work deal that battles against a tariff agreement that both parties are bound by is invalid.

SECTION 7. Effect of the issue of the issue of union or employer union

A member or sub-department of a union or employer association will not be at issue or exclusion free of their obligations after the tariff agreements that apply to the Association of the Exclusition.

SECTION 8. Peaceful
(1) The correction must not be searched by strike, the lockout or other working game.
(2) Interested must not be searched by strike, the lockout or other working game prior to the terms of Section 18 and 25 are met. Moreover, the stakeholder revision of tariffagreement must also be the validity time of this one expired.
(3) With less otherwise agreed, the tariff agreement and the pay terms and work terms that were about at the dispute's eruption apply as long as strike, lokout or other work combat must not be committed after other clauses.
SECTION 9. Replacement responsibility for violation of tariffagreement mv.
(1) Have members of a union or employer association violated a tariff agreement, the Association and the Member of the Union and the members are liable. The Association's responsibility comes only when it itself is to blame for the break-up or in the continuation of the tariff-resistant relationship. An employer, employer union, union or their members is also the replacement responsible for illegal strikes, the lockouts or other working combat, jf. Section 8 others laughed. The second period in the determination here applies to the equivalent.
(2) The replacement responsibility after the first clause of the first and third period applies to the equivalent of other Workers participating in the tariffstriky or illegal strike.
SECTION 10. Fastance of damages for the breach of tariffagreement mv.

Replacement for violation of tariff agreement or illegal strike or lockout shall of the court be determined under consideration of the damage of its size, the pest and financial susviability, damage and circumstances of the otherwise. By particularly extenuating circumstances, the replacement can fall completely away.

Chapter 3. Mekling

SECTION 11. Meklers
(1) The king mentions for three years of the time a fixed broker for the entire realm (the wealth broker) and one or more firm broker for the individual broker-line (circuit brokers). The Mekskin circuits are determined by the King.
(2) The king can after setting from the wealth management broker enumtors for limited time periods or for some cases, as well as fixed proxy for the wealth broker.
(3) The Meklers must meet the terms of Section 36 first clause.
SECTION 12. The Mekong institution's tasks and organization
(1) The Meklers shall broker in stakeholders between a union and an employer or employer association in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. The Meklers shall attempt to achieve unity between the parties on a reasonable settlement.
(2) The wealth manager is leading the mediation institution and are the rest of the broker's superiors.
(3) The wealth of the collection can leave the mediation in a case to a circuit court or a special broker. The estate agent can even take over the mediation in cases that hear under the orchargers.
SECTION 13. Meklerlift

No one has to do service as broker before they have sworn in written assurance that they conscientious will fulfill their duties. The insurance is sent to the ministry. The king determines how it should sound, jf. The court law Section 60.

SECTION 14. Inhability
(1) The rules of inhability in the judiciary Act Section 106 fg. applies to the equivalent of the broker as far as they fit.
(2) Anser the wealth broker for inuse in a dispute, reports this immediately possible to the ministry. Is the ministry agreed that the wealth of the wealth should not process the dispute, overhanded the treatment of the case to another upheld broker.
(3) Anser a different broker for inuse in a dispute, the report is reported as soon as possible to the wealth broker. The wealth of the agent can either even take over the treatment of the dispute or leave it to another appointed broker.
SECTION 15. Placetermination
(1) Placetermination that clause in stakeholder shall be given in writing. The signing deadline is 14 days if not otherwise determined by tariffagreement or other written agreement.
(2) Placetermination of the individual work holder is provided by the employee of labor, even or dennes union of employer, or by the individual employer to the individual working holder.
(3) Where this follows of tariffagreement, each of the parties can provide the space termination for its members to the other party (collective space termination).
SECTION 16. Message to the wealth broker
(1) When it is given the space termination in the stakeholder, it shall simultaneously be given written message of this to the wealth broker.
(2) The message shall contain :
a) copy of the space resignation,
b) account of what the dispute applies,
c) information about at which business space termination has been taken and how many workers at each company space resignation include,
d) information about when the space termination deadline runs out,
e) information on whether or not negotiations between the parties have been opened and in case of whether they are still in progress or has been cancelled.
(3) Ongoing negotiations when message of space termination shall be notified of subsequent interruption of the negotiations on the same way sent to the wealth broker.
(4) The message is sent by the union, employer or employer association that has made the space resignation. Is the applicable union, employer, or employer association member of an organization with the setting right after Section 39, the message of space termination is sent to the wealth broker through this organization.
(5) Messages of the wealth broker after this paragraph are sent at the same time in copy to the opposing party.
SECTION 17. Who is being retaken by strike or lockout

Ststrike or lockouts are committed for all of the workers who are resettled by the space resignation, unless the parties agree on something else.

SECTION 18. Time for the commit of strike or lockout

Ststrike or lokout must not be committed until there is given the space termination and the notice deadline that follows by this has expired, and not in any case until four reality days have gone from the rivaller have received message that negotiations have not been initiated or is broken or that the space resignation has been extended, jf. Section 16 and 17.

SECTION 19. Temporary ban on employment stop
(1) When the wealth broker has been notified of or otherwise has been recognized that negotiations have not been initiated or are broken, jf. Section 16, the wealth broker shall temporarily ban the parties to commit strike or lockout that could cause harm to public interests, until mediation after this chapter has ended.
(2) The space resignation will be extended to the wealth of the corresponding terms ban the strike or the lockout as follows by the expansion.
(3) The bid is sent to the association that has sent or should have sent the message of the space resignation. Copy of the ban on the ban is to be sent to the opposing party.
(4) To be binding, the ban must be submitted from the wealth broker within the expiration of two reality days after the wealth of the wealth of the wealth of negotiations has not been initiated or has been violated or that the space resignation has been extended.
(5) If the ban on strike or lockout in the dispute in the dispute where county, county-or convergence of such is party, the wealth broker can simultaneously decide that they are deadlines as follows by the service law Section 14 third joints and Section 17 first and second clause shall apply to the mediation.
(6) The wealth of the Kingdom can leave to another appointed broker to ban strike or lockout.
SECTION 20. Invitation to mediation
(1) If the ban is closed on strike or lockouts after Section 19, the wealth broker or broker to the case shall be overhauled to, immediately committing mediation.
(2) If the ban on strike or lockout is not defunct, the wealth broker or a circuit can be made of separate measures or after the petition of a party nonetheless commit mediation in a dispute.
(3) If the wealth broker or a circuit ler believes it is appropriate, it can be called into mediation by the rules of this chapter even if it is not given the space termination after Section 15.
(4) The broker determines time and place of the broker. The Mekong Meeting can also be held outside of the broker's circuit. The parties are called on the way the broker finds appropriate.
SECTION 21. Parts and Partshire

The parties can meet themselves and at the deputy. Advisors can also meet. Whether the party's duty to meet with mediation applies to the rules of Section 51 equivalent as far as they fit.

SECTION 22. acquisition of information
(1) The broker shall overtake all information necessary to process the dispute.
(2) At the acquisition of information, the broker has the authority as mentioned in Section 48 as far as it fits.
SECTION 23. Taushei-liked
(1) The Meklingmeetings shall be held for closed doors.
(2) Any person participating in the mediation, duties to preserve silence about what has been made if the broker does not allow public disclosure.
(3) Tausheme's duties do not apply to explanations for the Work Court.
(4) The broker does not have the obligation of the Working Court regarding the circumstances of the mediation during the mediation.
SECTION 24 Meeting Book
(1) In the meeting book is taken in time and place of the broker meeting and the broker's, the Parts and Partshire's name. The meeting book is to indicate the evidence that has been reviewed and the broker's progress in the brief.
(2) The result of the mediation is summarized. Has the broker put forward a final proposal for the resolution of the dispute, the proposal shall be admitted into the meeting book regardless of the outcome of the mediation. Any due date after Section 26 first clause for when a mood result is to be rendered.
SECTION 25. The Mekong End
(1) Each of the parties may require the mediation of the mediation when it has gone 10 days after the ban on strike or lockout was closed after Section 19 first clause. This does not apply if the person's party by absence or otherwise has not co-worked to the mediation.
(2) The Mekengen shall terminate at the latest four days after claims of closure have been put forward.
(3) Coming settlement capable, tariff agreement will comply with this created in collaboration with the broker. The Tariff agreement is underdrawn by the parties or their delegates.
SECTION 26 The mood of mediation proposals
(1) If it is to be stemming over a mediation proposal, the broker of the parties shall set due time for when the mood result is to be precoalite.
(2) The vote shall only apply to the broker proposal as it has been provided by the broker. The vote is supposed to be secret and in writing with pure yes-or no-votes.
SECTION 27. Message for voting result
(1) The parties shall provide the wealth broker written message of whether the broker proposal has been adopted or rejected.
(2) Rejected the proposal, the message should provide details of the number of votes for and against the proposal and about the number of voice entitlements. If the vote result has not been preceded by the deadline, the broker proposal is deemed to be passed.
(3) No parts of the mood result must be released before the wealth broker has announced the main result.
SECTION 28. Commitment of strike or lockouts when the broker proposal is rejected

If the broker proposal is rejected and notice of space termination after Section 15 still applies, the space resignation can be committed with four-day notice between the parties. The parties can in tariffagreement deal shorter deadline.

SECTION 29. Later, the decision of a broker proposal

Will some of the parties pass the broker's proposal to the solution of the dispute after the mediation is concluded, the statement of this can be sent to the person broker. The broker sends copy of the affidavit to the opposing party. Also, Approving this party's proposal, the broker calls the parties to a meeting for the creation of tariff agreement.

SECTION 30. Reception of mediation
(1) The parties can in communities require a closed broker resume.
(2) The wealth broker and the broker who has processed the case can at any time resume the mediation.
(3) Is it gone a month after the mediation ended without the dispute in the meantime, the broker who has processed the case will resume contact with the parties with the envision to end the conflict. Is a mediation proposal for treatment at the parties, the broker shall wait until the treatment has ended.
(4) About the party's duty to meet with mediation applies to the rules of Section 51 equivalent.
SECTION 31 Commaking

Attaches after this chapter hit by the wealth broker or other broker appointed by the law, the Easter can not be scratched.

SECTION 32. Parts Costs

The parties carry each of their costs with the mediation, unless otherwise agreed.

Chapter 4. The Working Court

SECTION 33. Employment seat and domain authority
(1) The Working Court has seat in Oslo.
(2) The court shall treat litigation that has been reacted in Section 1 letter in and disputes whether it has been violating the Section 8 first clause. The court treats further disputes whether there has been any violation of the provisions of stakeholders in Section 8 other joints and disputes that reacted in Section 9 about replacement liability for violation of tariffagreement mv.
(3) The Court shall nevertheless not process disputes that have been reacted in Section 9 when the case exclusively is filed against Workers as mentioned in Section 9 other clauses. Activists who associate tariff agreements on European cooperation selection or equivalent cooperation arrangements are processed by the provisions granted in or in co-law on the general provision of regulations in tariff agreement on European cooperation selection. Workcourt should also not treat disputes that link to tariffagreements reached after regulations granted in or in the co-compliance of the SE Act Section 3 about the labor influence of a European Company or the SCE Act Section 3 about the work-makers influence in a European contemporary enterprise.
(4) The parties can pass privately raped if they disputes that are mentioned in Section 8 first joints and Section 9.
SECTION 34. Requirements that build on individual work agreements
(1) In a case of a tariff agreement may also be claimed as the outruns of a working agreement, if the claim of the employment agreement will get its immediate decision by the verdict in the main issue.
(2) Has the Court of Court in its sentencing established a specific understanding of a tariffagreement, applies to this understanding also for any work agreement that builds on the tariff agreement.
SECTION 35. Search targets that apply to a tariffagreement
(1) Is a tariff agreement joined between a union, its sub-departments and members on the one side and an employer or a employer association, its subdepartments and members on the other hand, it is only the parent union or The employer association or the single-standing employer who has the search-Israel right.
(2) The parent of the parent union or employer association can still overdrag its applicant's right to a sub-department that has signed the tariff agreement. It shall be given written message of the attraction to the Empsification and tariff party. The drag can be limited to a single dispute or be given effect for the entire tariff period. In the latter case, the person's underdepartment can be searched directly and alone by the other search-made party in the tariff agreement.
(3) Member or sub-department that does not have the applicant right after the first clause cannot perform as a parthelps unless the applicant has the applicant's consent.
(4) Will a party downturn claim against named members of an association shall be these subpoenas next to the Association. Corresponding apply if it should be downplaced claim against other named people, jf. Section 9 other joints.
SECTION 36. Requirements of the Working Court of Justice
(1) Judges of the Working Court must be Norwegian nationals who are vegful and who are not waived suffrage in public affairs. They must not be a member of the board of directors of a union or employer association or be firmly employed in such an association.
(2) The Court of Justice shall in addition meet the requirements that apply to Supreme Court justices.
(3) A union judge in the Working Court must seek the Department of Approval for the page-to-do in such cases as the state of the judiciary Act Section 121c. The Ministry is leading the registry of the union of the union's side-dos in accordance with the judiciary Act Section 121e. A union judge is to report the page-to-act as soon as possible, and the latest within a month after the judge incurred the side-do goal. Any one has the right to get to know the information in the registry. The Ministry decides how information should be made available to the person requesting it.
SECTION 37. The work of the court. The resolution and the issue of judges mv.
(1) The persistent judges of the Working Court are three craft judges, of which a leader and a deputy leader, and four other judges.
(2) The three craft judges are civil servants. The rest of the four judges and at least two varadomers for each of the court's seven judges are appointed by the King for three years. The four judges of varadomers are appointed by setting, jf. SECTION 39.
(3) The Ministry can provide permictions, exemption and raise judges and varadomers in the Work Court in the uptake period of time. Applies to the permission or exemption a judge or a varadums appointed by setting, jf. Section 39, the person of the organization shall be granted admission to requiet.
SECTION 38. Work of the court in the individual case
(1) In the individual case, the Working Court is set with seven judges. As the main rule, two are referred to as two regular craft judges and a varadums for the craft judges. Further, four judges are referred to as setting after Section 39. Varadums appointed by setting from an association whose attitude is not followed by the uptake of the firm judges, shall in matters that apply to this union or its members nonetheless be called instead of the judge they are varomers for.
(2) If a judge during the negotiations gets decay that must be assumed to last longer than a week, appointed proxy will be named after Section 41.
(3) The judges who have begun the main negotiation of a case shall lead the case to end even if their service time runs out during the treatment of the case.
SECTION 39. The entrance court
(1) The employer association that includes at least 100 employers as to together employment at least 10,000 workers, as well as trade unions that have at least 10,000 Workers as members, each for proputting proposals for two judges with varadomers. Those who propose must have said themselves willing to receive the enlisted.
(2) Among those who are suggested, appointed two judges with varadomers from each side. Are there incomes competing proposals from different trade unions or employer organisations, the firm judges from each side are appointed among those proposed by the union and the employer union that has the most members within of the law.
(3) Is not the setting of the ministry within a set deadline, the uptake of the ministry occurs without setting.
SECTION 40. Inhability
(1) The rules of inhability in the judiciary Act Section 106 and 107 apply to the equivalent of judges in the Working Court. When other very honest circumstances have been revealed, which are suitable for weakening the trust of a judge's hability, the judge shall yield the seat. Questions about inhability can be raised by the judges and the parties. The Dombar Law Section 113 applies to the equivalent of as far as it fits.
(2) The court decides by ruling whether anyone should be ruled out as inskilled. Traveles matter to rule out a set judge ahead of the main negotiation where the case is to be resolved, the court's three union judges will hit the decision by ruling.
(3) Traveles questions to rule out one of the Emphav's union judges, the Work Court of Justice shall convene a vardadums to participate in the decision of the question.
SECTION 41. Proxy for a judge who is inskilled or has decay
(1) If all the court judges are inhabile or has decay, the ministry mentions proxy for the court's executive.
(2) If it can be expected to be placed an inhabilitation incentive against a judge appointed by setting, and the court's executive or case-prep judge assumes the acquisition may be approved by the court, varadums should be referred to.
(3) If a judge is inskilled or has decay, it shall be called a varadums in the order of the order of the uptake. For a judge appointed by setting, varadadums from the same association should still be referred to before other varumomers.
SECTION 42. Justice bargaining skill

The court is mediation or quorum when all judges or varadomers to process the case are present. By the decision of inhability questions applies to Section 40.

SECTION 43. Doomsday promise

No one must do service as a judge in the Work Court before they have sworn in writing assurance that they conscientious will fulfill their duties. The insurance is sent to the ministry. The king determines how it should sound, jf. The court law Section 60.

SECTION 44. Partshire and process deputies
(1) A party can meet even or by the process deputy.
(2) A party can meet with up to three people as well as one or more process deputies.
(3) Foreign counsel may be the process deputy when the court after the case of the case of the case and conditions otherwise find it undoubtful.
(4) A process warrant must be unnarrowed.
(5) For the Other, the provisions of the dispute Act 2 about parties, process skill and proxy and chapter 3 about process deputies and legal helpers accordingly as far as they fit.
SECTION 45. Preparation of the case
(1) The case is brought in for the Work Court by the written subpoena. The subpoena submitted as the paper document, it should be sent so many copies that the judges in the case and sued can get each of their copy.
(2) The voting shall contain :
a) name and address on parties and process deputies,
b) a representation of the case and the requirements that are made current,
c) an allegation that indicates the sentencing result is suing requires,
d) the actual and judicial justification for the case of the plaintiff's claims,
e) task over the evidence that will be taken, how they thought obtained to weigh, and what the plaintiff intends to redeem at them,
f) task over the evidence the plaintiff wishes provided by the opposing party or by the court's assistance,
g) The basis that the court can process the case if there can be doubts about this,
h) the case of the applicant on the further treatment of the case.
(3) Is it missing at the subpoena, the plaintiff shall immediately be made aware of them and explained how they should be corrected.
(4) With the subpoena shall be submitted protocol from the negotiations that have been brought between the parties concerning the dispute, or evidence that the plaintiff has attempted to conduct such negotiations. If this arbitrary year is not met, the plaintiff shall be made aware that the court cannot take the case during treatment.
(5) When the subpoena is in order, it is passed without a stay of the sued. The court should determine a due date, which normally should be three weeks, to input in written responses. In the intended response, the defendant should be conveyed his remarks to the subpoena, any objections to the court handling the case, mentioning the claims that sued will travel, give evidence tasks responding to those mentioned under others clause letter e and f, as well as indicate plaintiffs vision on the further treatment of the case. The first clause applies to equivalent.
(6) Case prep judge determines time and place of the main negotiation, which is to be held as soon as possible, but at the earliest 48 hours after the summons has been confirmed received by the parties. The main negotiation shall be incurred only six months after the terms of the fifth clause first period are met, with less-spoken reasons for the purpose of the case for the case of longer-term preparation. The deadline starts to run when the subpoena is recited to the opposing party. The main negotiation can be held outside the court's persistent seat.
(7) Is the arrest done to ensure a replacement claim if decision hears during the Working Court, the case of the replacement claim must be raised within six days.
SECTION 46. Parthelp
(1) Partaid can be permitted for
a) the person who has real needs due in his own court position for the one party wins, and
b) employer and employment organizations that have such a need are due in their member's legal stance.
(2) Partaid must be declared in the process write at the latest four weeks prior to the main negotiation. The experience is to indicate what is the basis of the party aid, and co-shared the parties with due date to contest the party aid. Bestrides it, the question is decided on the court of the couple's assistance in ruling. Until it is said verdict that denies parentsaid, the person who has declared a couple's assistance, exercising process rights after third clause.
(3) The Parthelper will enter the case as it stands. The Parthelper can conduct process actions on behalf of the party. The process actions must not be contrary to the party's process actions.
SECTION 47. Association of Tickets to Public Care

Cases that travel equilibrium questions, and which shall be treated with the same Assembly of the court, can unite to joint treatment and to joint decision.

SECTION 48. Case processing
(1) The court shall make sure that the case becomes fully lit.
(2) The court shall on any stage of the case consider the possibility of the dispute resolved in remembrance by encouraging the parties to find an outside legal solution. Duty after the first period does not apply if the case of the character or conditions of the case of the case of any such solution.
(3) The case preparation and the main negotiation are controlled by one of the court's union judges.
(4) The case is processed and the evidence is conveyed in the way that the court finds appropriate. The main negotiation shall be oral, unless both parties consent in written treatment and the court finds it undisputed. The TvistelAct Section 9-13 about the management of the main negotiation and Section 9-14 others laughed about oral major negotiation applies to the equivalent of as far as they fit.
(5) The court can obtain explanations of parties, the plainful and any other whose explanation may be of significance to the case. The TvistelAct Section 22-9 about evidence exemption for charge personal information applies to the equivalent of as far as it fits. There can be no evidence of information from broker about what has come under the mediation.
(6) The court can impose any evidence of documents, business books and other evidence that the person has at hand over. The court may impose a party or a witness to examine registered accounting information, accounting material or other evidence, as well as to put forward an overview of this.
(7) The court can conduct the experience and evidence examination either itself or by one or more of its members or at the appointed plaints.
(8) The Court of Work may require evidence of evidence at the courthouse. The TvistelAct Section 21-11 about evidence footage, Section 21-13 about the evidence in cases processed in writing and the provisions of Chapter 27 of evidence of evidence in trial applies to the equivalent of as far as they fit.
(9) The TvistelAct Section 16-4 whether the deferral of the main negotiation applies to the equivalent of as far as it fits.
(10) A party that will have valid absence at a court meeting may require the meeting reberammes. The same applies when a couple's representative or process deputy will have valid absence and it will entail significantly at disadvantage that another meetings instead. The Court of Justice or case preparatory judge can otherwise be retaking legal proceedings when it is necessary to ensure the proper treatment or if heavy-weighing reasons otherwise speak for it. By the decision, it shall be placed emphasis on the need for fast, defensible and cost-effective treatment. By resettlement, it shall barely be determined new time for the court meeting.
SECTION 49. Stessing of the case
(1) Case prep judge can halt a case on motion from a party if the outcome entirely or partly depends on a judicial relationship that will be binding settled in a separate case. The case can also be stopped if heavy-weighing reasons otherwise speak for it. It shall be placed emphasis on the need for fast, defensible and cost-effective treatment.
(2) Decision of stansing is met by the ruling of the case prep judge. The effect of stansing incomes when the verdict is said. The case is brought in motion once again when the treatment can continue.
(3) The parties can deal stansing a case for at least three months. The deal gets effect when the court has received it. Case prep judge brings the case back in motion again on motion from a party. Same case can be stopped by agreement between the parties several times. A case that has been halted after agreement between the parties is lifted when it has been halted for two years.
(4) The TvistelAct Section 16-15 about the effect of stansing and Section 16-16 about stansing after the law applies to the equivalent of as far as they fit.
SECTION 50. Absence of parties, partshire and process deputies
(1) If a party, the party representative or process deputy does not meet, and it is enlightened or likely that the person has valid absence, the case shall be postponed. The TvistelAct Section 13-4 if valid absence applies to the equivalent of as far as it fits.
(2) If the plaintiff does not meet without it being lit or likely that the person has valid absence, the case should be dismissed.
(3) If the defendant does not meet without it being lit or likely that the person has valid absence, and the plaintiff's meetings, this may require the case to be promoted. The case is due to fall as far as it is possible to be treated as if the absent party had been present.
(4) If no party meets, and it is not enlightened or likely that any of them have valid absence, the case shall be lifted.
SECTION 51. Meeting of the duty of witnesses, parties and the Saxon
(1) Any person who lives or holds up in Norway, duties after summons from the court to meet as a witness for the Work Court. Upon the summons, it shall be determined whether the explanation shall be given directly for the Work Court or by farnasories. The TvistelAct Section 21-10 if remote navhear applies to the equivalent of as far as it fits.
(2) About the party's duty to meet personal after particularly the injunction applies to the same rules as for witnesses after the first clause.
(3) Any person who duties to testify in the case is after the uplift of the court obligation to do service as plaintik.
SECTION 52. Invitation of witnesses, parties and the Saxon
(1) Witnesses, Saxon and others should be about possible incl. with one week's notice. The deadline can be subject to one day if the envision for quick treatment of the case makes it mandated or it is laid to the right that the witness can be questioned without negliles important to-do items. Witnesses and plainsavvy who are located close to the courthouse or a place where remover can be taken, duties to meet immediately if this can happen without significantly disadvantage.
(2) Parter is to be called with at least 48 hours notice.
SECTION 53. Allowance for witnesses and the Saxon
(1) Witnesses that the court has called and appointed plainers have claimed compensation by the rules of law 21. July 1916 # 2 about wide and ticket-savvy allowance mv.
(2) The court may decide that also witnesses as provant of the parties and the plaints who are not appointed shall have such reparations.
SECTION 54. Offenliness and the envision right
(1) The trial meetings are public unless the court decides otherwise. The doors should be closed when the negotiations include the business or federation secrets or other that did not involve any knowledge of.
(2) Any person who has been present during negotiations for closed doors, duties to preserve silence about what has been presented during the negotiations, if not the court allows public disclosure.
(3) The provisions of the dispute chapter 14 about public and envision are applicable to the equivalent of as far as they fit.
SECTION 55. Procbok
(1) In the court of the court, the time and place of the court meeting, the names of judges, the protocol leads, parties, party officials, process deputies, witnesses and plaintiamen.
(2) The court book is to indicate the evidence that has been reviewed and the negotiating progress shall be rendered in the brief. Allegations and objections shall be admitted completely or attached. In the same way, all the court's decisions and settlement of the agreement shall be made between the parties, admitted.
SECTION 56. Court's decisions
(1) Court decisions meet with the voting majority.
(2) Dom shall be dismissed as soon as the case treatment has been concluded, and only four weeks after the closure of the main negotiation. When the case is so labor intensive that it is not possible to comply with the deadline, the sentencing can happen later. If the deadline is exceeded, the reason should be specified in the verdict.
(3) The TvistelAct Section 19-4 first to third clause about the cancellation and Section 19-5 about the subdirection of the decision applies as far as they fit.
(4) The court can decide to correct a decision that due to write-or math errors, misconceptations, or similar clear errors have been given a design that did not vote with the court's opinion. Such correction can be the court to take action of his own action or on the motion of a party. The judge who led the negotiations can make the corrections if there is no doubt about how to perform. Decision about correction shall be added to the decision so that it is set forth what is aimed. The parties should be underfixed immediately.
(5) Case management verdicts and other decisions can be made to the court when the transformation is not unsustainable for a party that has targeted after the decision. The TvistelAct Section 19-10 fourth clause of recleaning applies to the equivalent of as far as it fits.
SECTION 57 Court settlement
(1) It can be made to the court settlement under the main negotiation. Court settlement is introduced into the court book and underdrawn by the parties and the court members. Has the settlement not regulations on case costs, the court on the motion of the parties shall determine the question after discretion. The TvistelAct Section 19-11 third clause of the court's control with the settlement applies to the equivalent.
(2) A court settlement has the same effect as a judicial judgment of the Work Court.
(3) Questions about a court's validity can be estimated to the Supreme Court's appellate committee. The deadline is a month.
SECTION 58. Anke
(1) The chain that rejects a case from the Working Court can be appelated to the Supreme Court's appeal committee. 1 The deadline is a month.
(2) The person who is not party may appeal a verdict or decision that imposes the person's duties or illaments of punishment or charge. The parties can appeal the verdicts that fire them even punishment-and charge of charge after Section 60 and 62.
(3) The duck must be declared immediately if they are present in court, and otherwise no later than three days after the person has received the announcement of the decision. So, unless someone has performed as a counterpart or can be considered counterpart, the person should be underfixed about the appeal. The appeal has been setting up effect for the one that appeals.
(4) The court will submit without the residence of the appellate affidavit with the necessary documents and transcripts of the Supreme Court's appellate Committee. The court, the anding and others that the appeal has meaning for, can give written statement on the matter. The influence of the Easter works that has not previously been mentioned, the statement should always be passed through the court.
(5) The court judge and verdicts that do not be retaken by the first and second clause are final and can be fulfilled by the rules of the Supreme Court judge. A verdict can still be estimated to the Supreme Court's appeal committee to raise on the basis that the case does not hear under the courts of the court. The deadline for such appeal is a month.
1 Should be the "Supreme Court," jf. dl. Section 1 (1) # 1 and Section 4 other periods.
SECTION 59. Ticket Costs
(1) As the main rule does not correspond to the case costs of the Working Court.
(2) The court can in very frank cases impose one of the parties or both to cover the state's expenses to a trial after this law.
(3) When the frank reasons speak for it, the court can be attributed to a party that has won a case for the Work Court, compensation for its case costs from the opposing party. The case is also considered to be won if the counterpart's case is denied or raised.
(4) Heves the case that has been enjoyed without the settlement involving the case costs, the question of ticket costs after the court's discretion, if one of the parties demands it.

Chapter 5. Closing provisions

SECTION 60. Insult behavior mv.
(1) The person who in a meeting of the Working Court is insulting the court or anyone who meets for it, disrupting the meeting, violating the dignity of the court or does not sound the decree of the court or the union that governs the case, can be issued and illegation fines. The person who writes something undecent or insulting in a process type can be illegant fine. The decision is met by ruling.
(2) The provisions of the first clause also apply to the management of the mediation institution.
SECTION 61. The violation of the secrecy mv.

The act of which intentional or aggravated negligent violates the privilege of Section 23 or Section 54 second clause is punishable by criminal law Section 209. Similarly, it is punishable by Section 22 other joints by relating information that the broker catches up under the mediation, Section 26 others laughed at conveting the details of the mediation over the broker proposal and Section 27 third clause by relaunter the mood result before the wealth broker has announced the main result.

0 Modified by law 19 June 2015 # 65 (ikr. 1 oct 2015).
SECTION 62. Absence mv.
(1) If a witness or someone else has received particularly the injunction to meet personally, nonvalid absence, not in time to report due or without permission leave the meeting before it is end, can be illegation fine and be placed completely or partly to replace the costs that are incurred. The decision is met by ruling.
(2) Utester the person after new summons or solicitation to meet, it may yet again illegges fine and charge of responsibility.
(3) As invalid absence also counts that some without valid reason refuse to undertake the task as plain-savvy, that a Saxon neglect his duty and that some must be dismissed because they face intoxicated.
(4) denies any without any valid reason to explain or be sworn in insurance, the person by the verdict under the case of illegation fines and is placed completely or partly to replace the charges that the nethage has caused. The person cannot ilegges such punishment and such a charge of responsibility more than twice in the same case.
(5) If someone does not raise a document or display, lecture, or give access to one thing or to mimic and make excerpts of a document or similar, it is considered to refuse to explain.
SECTION 63. Responsibility for appeal

For obviously groundless appeal, the Supreme Court's appellate Court of Appeals can be fined and charge of charge.

Chapter 6. Ipowersetting and changes in other laws

SECTION 64. Ipowersetting

The law takes effect from the time the King decides. 1 From the time the law takes effect, repeating law 5. May 1927 # 1 about labor litigation.

1 From 1 March 2012 ifg. res. 27 jan 2012 # 71.
SECTION 65. Changes in other laws

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