The Transfer of Tribunal Functions Order 2013

Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1954

196.  In section 6 (power of Agricultural land Tribunal to refer questions of law to High Court)—

(a) for the heading, substitute “Appeals from Agricultural Land Tribunal”;

(b) for subsection (1) substitute—

“(1) An appeal on any point of law from a decision of the Agricultural Land Tribunal may be made to the Upper Tribunal.”;

(c) omit subsections (2) and (4);

(d) for subsections (5) and (6) substitute—

“(5) Where the Agricultural Land Tribunal is notified of an appeal to the Upper Tribunal under this section from its decision, effect shall not be given to the Tribunal’s decision unless and until the Tribunal otherwise order after the appeal and any appeal arising from that appeal have been concluded (or the right to take or continue such an appeal has lapsed); and in a case relating to a notice to quit, the Tribunal may postpone (or further postpone) the date at which the tenancy is to be terminated by the notice, if it has effect.

(6) The Lord Chancellor may, by order under section 73(3) of the Agriculture Act 1947, make such provision as he thinks necessary or expedient for enabling the chairman of the Agricultural Land Tribunal to exercise all or any of the Tribunal’s powers under subsection (5), and for regulating any proceedings before the Tribunal consequent on notification of the appeal or on the decision on such an appeal, and enabling any such proceedings to be dealt with by a Tribunal constituted for that purpose, where they cannot conveniently be dealt with by the Tribunal originally constituted for the purposes of the proceedings.”