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<Title><Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2014/10" id="c00001" Class="ScottishAct" Year="2014" Number="0010">Tribunals (Scotland) Act 2014</Citation></Title>
<Number>10</Number>
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<DateText>15 April 2014</DateText>
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<Title><CitationSubRef id="c00380" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2014/10/section/54" CitationRef="c00001" SectionRef="section-54">Section 54</CitationSubRef> – Position on transfer-in</Title>
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<Text><CitationSubRef id="c00382" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2014/10/section/54" CitationRef="c00001" SectionRef="section-54">Section 54</CitationSubRef> provides that any decision made in the exercise of the functions of the First-tier Tribunal or Upper Tribunal which is specified by the Scottish Ministers in regulations made under subsection (1) is an excluded decision. Subsection (2) provides that a decision made in the exercise of the functions of the First-tier Tribunal or Upper Tribunal may only be specified in regulations if the functions were transferred-in from a listed tribunal by regulations made under subsection 28(2) and, immediately prior to the transfer of those functions, there was no statutory right of appeal against the decision.</Text>
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<Text>The effect of section 54 is to enable the Scottish Ministers, by regulations, to exclude the rights of review and appeal established by the Act in relation to decision-making functions which have been transferred-in to the Scottish Tribunals from a listed tribunal from which there was previously no statutory right of appeal.</Text>
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