Agriculture Act 1947

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73 Establishment, constitution and procedure of Agricultural Land [F1Tribunal].E+W

[F2(1)For Wales, there shall continue to be an Agricultural Land Tribunal with the duty of hearing and determining references and applications made to the Agricultural Land Tribunal under any enactment.]

(2)The provisions in that behalf of the Ninth Schedule to this Act shall have effect as to the constitution of [F3the Agricultural Land Tribunal] and otherwise in relation thereto.

(3)[F4The Lord Chancellor] may by order make provision for the procedure of [F5the Agricultural Land Tribunal], and in particular—

[F6(aa)as to the manner in which applications are to be made to the [F7Agricultural Land Tribunal] and the time within which they are made;]

(a)for the taking of evidence on oath, affirmation or otherwise, the cross-examination of witnesses, and for the summoning of witnesses in like manner as for the purposes of an arbitration under [F8the M1Agricultural Holdings Act 1986];

(b)for the recording and proof of the decisions of the [F9Agricultural Land Tribunal], and for enabling the [F9Agricultural Land Tribunal] to decide by a majority;

(c). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F10

[F11(d)for the transfer of proceedings for the purposes of section 42 of the Agricultural Holdings Act 1986 (procedure where deceased held more than one holding), where the determination of associated applications concerns one or more holdings in Wales and one or more holdings in England.]

(4)An order under the last foregoing subsection may make different provision for the procedure on different classes of reference [F12or application] to [F13the Agricultural Land Tribunal] .

[F14(5)[F15The Agricultural Land Tribunal] may, for the purpose of hearing and determining applications and references made to them under any enactment, sit in two or more divisions, and, in relation to the hearing and determination of any such application or reference by such a division, that division shall be deemed to be the Tribunal.]

Textual Amendments

F1Word in s. 73 substituted (1.7.2013) by The Transfer of Tribunal Functions Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1036), art. 1, Sch. 1 para. 190(a) (with Sch. 3)

F2S. 73(1) substituted (1.7.2013) by The Transfer of Tribunal Functions Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1036), art. 1, Sch. 1 para. 190(b) (with Sch. 3)

F3Words in s. 73(2) substituted (1.7.2013) by The Transfer of Tribunal Functions Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1036), art. 1, Sch. 1 para. 190(c) (with Sch. 3)

F4Words substituted by Agriculture Act 1958 (c. 71), Sch. 1 Pt. I para. 3(a)

F5Words in s. 73(3) substituted (1.7.2013) by The Transfer of Tribunal Functions Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1036), art. 1, Sch. 1 para. 190(d)(i) (with Sch. 3)

F6S. 73(3)(aa) inserted by Agriculture Act 1958 (c. 71), Sch. 1 Pt. I para. 3(c)

F7Words in s. 73(3)(aa) substituted (1.7.2013) by The Transfer of Tribunal Functions Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1036), art. 1, Sch. 1 para. 190(d)(ii) (with Sch. 3)

F8Words substituted by Agricultural Holdings Act 1986 (c. 5, SIF 2:3), ss. 99, 100, Sch. 13 para. 3, Sch. 14 para. 18

F9Words in s. 73(3)(b) substituted (1.7.2013) by The Transfer of Tribunal Functions Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1036), art. 1, Sch. 1 para. 190(d)(ii) (with Sch. 3)

F10S. 73(3)(c) repealed by Agriculture Act 1958 (c. 71), Sch. 2 Pt. I

F11S. 73(3)(d) inserted (1.7.2013) by The Transfer of Tribunal Functions Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1036), art. 1, Sch. 1 para. 190(d)(iii) (with Sch. 3)