The Agricultural Land Tribunals (Rules) Order 2007

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Agricultural Land Tribunals (Rules) Order 2007 and comes into force on 15th January 2008.

Agricultural Land Tribunals Rules

2.—(1) The Schedule (Agricultural Land Tribunals Rules) has effect.

(2) The Rules set out in that Schedule may be cited as the Agricultural Land Tribunals Rules 2007.

Revocations and savings

3.—(1) The Agricultural Land Tribunals (Rules) Order 1978(1) and the Agricultural Land Tribunals (Succession to Agricultural Tenancies) Order 1984(2) are revoked.

(2) Where an application to an Agricultural Land Tribunal—

(a) has been made before the commencement of this Order;

(b) is made after the commencement of this Order for a direction entitling the applicant to a tenancy of an agricultural holding on the death or retirement of the tenant when the date of death or the giving of the retirement notice was before the commencement of this Order; or

(c) is made after the commencement of this Order for the Tribunal’s consent to operation of notice to quit when the date on which the tenant served a counter-notice in writing requiring section 26(1) of the Agricultural Holdings Act 1986 shall apply to the notice to quit was before the date of the commencement of this Order,

the Agricultural Land Tribunals (Rules) Order 1978 or the Agricultural Land Tribunals (Succession to Agricultural Tenancies) Order 1984, as the case may be, continue to apply to that application as if they had not been revoked.

Signed on the authority of the Lord Chancellor

Bridget Prentice

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Ministry of Justice

25th October 2007