http://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1971/7/section/25Leasehold (Enlargement and Extension) Act (Northern Ireland) 1971An Act to enable lessees of certain premises held on long leases to purchase the fee simple interest in the land, to enable grantees of certain fee farm grants to redeem their fee farm rents, to enable such lessees to obtain an extension of their leases, and for matters connected with those matters.texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2012-08-292009-10-01 251 Where any proceedings are being carried on before the Lands Tribunal arising out of any matter which the Tribunal is required or empowered to determine under this Act, the Tribunal may cause to be sent to the Commissioner of Valuation a request for a valuation, estimate or statement in respect of any matter relevant to the determination of the purchase price of the fee simple in land under this Act or to the apportionment of a rent under this Act or to the fixing of the rent payable and any other term or condition under a lease extended under this Act and any review of such last-mentioned rent and, where the Tribunal so sends a request to the Commissioner of Valuation, the Tribunal may adjourn the proceedings.2Upon receipt of a request under this section, the Commissioner of Valuation shall cause such valuation, estimate or statement as is mentioned in the request to be prepared and sent to the Tribunal together with a statement of the fee, calculated in accordance with regulations made by the Ministry of Finance and Personnel, payable therefor.3Any party to the proceedings shall be entitled to obtain from the Commissioner of Valuation a copy of a valuation, estimate or statement furnished by the Commissioner of Valuation in pursuance of this section, subject to payment therefor of such fee as the Ministry of Finance and Personnel may prescribe.4 The fee payable under this section for a valuation, estimate or statement furnished by the Commissioner of Valuation for the purposes of this section shall be borne and paid to the Lands Tribunal by such party or parties and in such proportion as it shall direct.5 Where a request is sent under this section in relation to land to the Commissioner of Valuation, the Lands Tribunal shall, in determining any matter in relation to which it is relevant, have regard to the valuation, estimate or statement furnished by the said Commissioner.functions transf. 1982 NI 61982 NI 6