Marginal note:Filing initiating documents

2. Subject to sections 3, 47, 51 and 55, all initiating documents shall be filed with the Board or the Chairperson by filing them in duplicate with the Executive Director.

Marginal note:Initiating document sent by fax

• 3. (1) If an initiating document is sent by fax to the Executive Director, the original of the document and a copy shall be sent to the Executive Director as soon as possible.

• Marginal note:Date of receipt

  (2) The initiating document sent by fax is deemed to be received on the date of the fax transmission if its original and a copy are sent in accordance with subsection (1).

Marginal note:Copies

4. On receipt of an initiating document or, in the case of an initiating document sent by fax, on receipt of the original of the document and the copy, the Executive Director shall provide copies to the other party and to any person who may be affected by the proceeding.

Marginal note:Reply

5. The other party shall reply to the initiating document — other than a request for arbitration, a request for conciliation or a notice of a reference to adjudication — no later than 15 days after it receives a copy of the document, unless these Regulations provide otherwise.

Marginal note:Failure to reply

6. Despite sections 16 and 17, if, in a proceeding before the Board or the Chairperson, the other party fails to file its reply to the initiating document within the time limit prescribed in these Regulations, the Board or the Chairperson, as the case may be, may dispose of the matter before it without further notice to that party.

Marginal note:Subsequent documents

• 7. (1) Subject to section 8, any document submitted subsequently to an initiating document shall be filed with the Executive Director.

• Marginal note:Copies

  (2) The person filing a subsequent document shall provide a copy of it to

  • (a) the person who filed the initiating document;

  • (b) every person in receipt of an initiating document by virtue of section 4, unless that person has notified the Executive Director in writing that the person does not wish to receive a copy of subsequent documents;

  • (c) any intervenors; and

  • (d) the Canadian Human Rights Commission if it received a notice referred to in subsection 210(1), 217(1) or 222(1) of the Act.

• Marginal note:Exceptions

  (3) Subsection (2) does not apply in respect of

  • (a) applications for a summons;

  • (b) the documentary evidence referred to in sections 30 and 42;

  • (c) the additional documentation provided by the employer under sections 32 and 44; and

  • (d) statements of opposition and applications to amend statements of opposition.