The Agricultural Land Tribunals (Areas) Order 1982
The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 73(1) of the Agriculture Act 1947, hereby makes the following Order:—
1.
This Order may be cited as the Agricultural Land Tribunals (Areas) Order 1982 and shall come into operation on 2nd March 1982.
2.
(1)
For the purposes of section 73 of the Agriculture Act 1947 there shall be eight areas as specified in column 1 of the Schedule to this Order.
(2)
Each area shall comprise the counties and the London Boroughs which are set out in respect of it in column 2 of the said Schedule.
(3)
For the purposes of the preceding paragraph and of the said Schedule the Isles of Scilly shall be treated as if they were a county.
3.
Any proceedings which on the coming into operation of this Order are pending before an Agricultural Land Tribunal may thereafter be continued before the Agricultural Land Tribunal for the area in which the whole or the greater part of the agricultural holding to which the proceedings relate is situate, and that tribunal shall have power to hear and determine them.
4.
The Agricultural Land Tribunals (Areas) Order 1974 and the Agricultural Land Tribunals (Areas) (Amendment) Order 1976 are hereby revoked.
SCHEDULE
Column 1 | Column 2 |
|---|---|
Areas | Counties and London Boroughs |
Northern | Cleveland |
Cumbria | |
Durham | |
Northumberland | |
Tyne and Wear | |
Yorkshire and Humberside | Humberside |
North Yorkshire | |
South Yorkshire | |
West Yorkshire | |
Eastern | Bedfordshire |
Cambridgeshire | |
Essex | |
Hertfordshire | |
Lincolnshire | |
Norfolk | |
Northamptonshire | |
Suffolk | |
London Boroughs north of the river Thames except Richmond upon Thames | |
Midlands | Derbyshire |
Herefordshire and Worcestershire | |
Leicestershire | |
Nottinghamshire | |
Warwickshire | |
West Midlands | |
Western | Cheshire |
Greater Manchester | |
Lancashire | |
Merseyside | |
Shropshire | |
Staffordshire | |
South Western | Avon |
Cornwall | |
Devon | |
Dorset | |
Gloucestershire | |
Somerset | |
Wiltshire | |
Isles of Scilly | |
South Eastern | Berkshire |
Buckinghamshire | |
East Sussex | |
Hampshire | |
Isle of Wight | |
Kent | |
Oxfordshire | |
Surrey | |
West Sussex | |
London Boroughs south of the river Thames including Richmond upon Thames | |
Welsh | Clwyd |
Dyfed | |
Gwent | |
Gwynedd | |
Mid Glamorgan | |
Powys | |
South Glamorgan | |
West Glamorgan |
This Order constitutes new areas for Agricultural Land Tribunals. The Yorkshire and Lancashire, East Midland and West Midland Areas cease to exist and the counties formerly included in those areas become part of the areas to be known as Yorkshire and Humberside, Midlands, Western and Eastern.