(1)There shall continue to be a council entitled the Council on Tribunals (being the council constituted by the M1Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1958)—
(a)to keep under review the constitution and working of the tribunals specified in Schedule 1 to this Act (being the tribunals constituted under or for the purposes of the statutory provisions specified in that Schedule) and, from time to time, to report on their constitution and working;
(b)to consider and report on such particular matters as may be referred to the Council under this Act with respect to tribunals other than the ordinary courts of law, whether or not specified in Schedule 1 to this Act, or any such tribunal;
(c)to consider and report on such matters as may be referred as aforesaid, or as the Council may determine to be of special importance, with respect to administrative procedures involving, or which may involve, the holding by or on behalf of a Minister of a statutory inquiry, or any such procedure.
(2)Nothing in this section shall authorise or require the Council to deal with any matter with respect to which the Parliament of Northern Ireland has power to make laws.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 1(1)(c) extended (S.) by Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1972 (c. 52), s. 7(6)
C2S. 1(1)(c) extended by Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51, SIF 81:1), s. 4, Sch. 1 para. 9(7) (the extension being in force as regards specified areas by virtue of S.I. 1988/140, 1989/1065, 1089, 1979, 2114, 1990/652, 1183 and being otherwise prospective)
C3S. 1(1)(c) extended (E.W.) (prosp. in part) by Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (c. 8, SIF 123:1), ss. 10, 20(7), 24, 28(1)(2)
C4S. 1(1)(c) extended (E.W.) by Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (c. 8, SIF 123:1), ss. 29, 35(8), 49
C5Reference to matters with respect to which the Parliament of Northern Ireland has power to make laws to be construed as a reference to matters with respect to which that Parliament would have had power to make laws if the Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c. 36) had not been passed: ibid., s. 40(2)
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