The Transfer of Tribunal Functions (Mobile Homes Act 2013 and Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2014

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order transfers into the unified tribunal structure further jurisdiction conferred on a residential property tribunal in England by the Mobile Homes Act 2013 (c. 14). Residential property tribunals were constituted from rent assessment committees which were added as scheduled tribunals in 2013 by the Amendments to Schedule 6 to the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1034) and transferred into the unified tribunal structure by the Transfer of Tribunal Functions Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1036).

Schedule 1 makes consequential amendments to the Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960 (c. 62) (“the 1960 Act”), which the Mobile Homes Act 2013 amended. The effect is that as regards land in England, the jurisdiction and powers of a residential property tribunal are transferred to the First-tier Tribunal or, if Tribunal Procedure Rules so determine, the Upper Tribunal.

Schedule 2 makes further consequential amendments to the Assured Tenancies and Agricultural Occupancies (Forms) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/194), which were omitted from the Transfer of Tribunal Functions Order 2013. It also amends the First-tier Tribunal (Fees) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1179) to prescribe the fees payable in the First-tier Tribunal in certain appeals under the 1960 Act.