Rating and Valuation (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 1984

13 Constitution of lands valuation appeal court

(1) In section 8 of the [1867 c. 80.] Valuation of Lands (Scotland) Amendment Act 1867 and in section 7 of the [1879 c. 42.] Valuation of Lands (Scotland) Amendment Act 1879 (which sections, construed as originally enacted, provide, amongst other things, that appeals in valuation matters shall lie to two judges of the Court of Session), for the words " any two " there shall be substituted the words " a judge or (in a case in relation to which the judge to whom it was submitted has directed that it be heard by three judges or where the appeal is against a determination of the Lands Tribunal for Scotland under section 1(3A) of the Lands Tribunal Act 1949) three ".

(2) In the proviso to the said section 8, after the word " said " there shall be substituted the words " judge or, as the case may be. ".

(3) In the said section 7—

(a) for the word " judges ", where secondly and thirdly occurring, there shall be substituted the words " judge or, as the case may be, judges "; and

(b) for the word " their ", in each place where it occurs, there shall be substituted the words " his or, as the case may be, their ".

(4) Section 7(2) of the [1908 c. 62.] Local Government (Scotland) Act 1908 (which provides for the construction of the said section 8 and section 7 as if the references to two judges were references to three judges) shall cease to have effect.