16 Transfers of certain proceedings to and from TribunalF1U.K.
(1)The Lord Chancellor may by regulations—
(a)make provision enabling the court—
(i)to transfer to the Tribunal for its determination so much of any proceedings before the court as relates to an infringement issue; and
(ii)to give effect to the determination of that issue by the Tribunal; and
(b)make such incidental, supplementary, consequential, transitional or saving provision as the Lord Chancellor may consider appropriate.
(2)The power to make regulations under subsection (1) is exercisable by statutory instrument subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.
(3)Rules of court may prescribe the procedure to be followed in connection with a transfer mentioned in subsection (1).
(4)The court may transfer to the Tribunal, in accordance with rules of court, so much of any proceedings before it as relates to a claim to which section 47A of the 1998 Act applies.
(5)Rules of court may make provision in connection with the transfer from the Tribunal to the High Court or the Court of Session of a claim made in proceedings under section 47A of the 1998 Act.
(6)In this section—
“the court” means—
(a)the High Court or a county court; or
(b)the Court of Session or a sheriff court; and
“infringement issue” means any question relating to whether or not an infringement of —
(a)the Chapter I prohibition or the Chapter II prohibition; or
(b)Article 81 or 82 of the Treaty,
has been or is being committed;
but otherwise any terms used in this section and Part 1 of the 1998 Act have the same meaning as they have in that Part.
Textual Amendments applied to the whole legislation
F1Act: for the words "solicitor of the Supreme Court of Northern Ireland" wherever they occur there is substituted (prosp.) the words "solicitor of the Court of Judicature of Northern Ireland" by virtue of Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 59, 148(1), Sch. 11 para. 5 [Editorial Note: this amendment will be carried through into the text of the Act at the same time as any other effects on the Act for the year in which the relevant commencement order (or first such order) is made]