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LANDS TRIBUNAL AND COMPENSATION ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1964 - SECT 7

Power to add to jurisdiction of Lands Tribunal.

7.(1) The Ministry may, by order made subject to affirmative resolution,
direct that questions which are required or authorised by any
transferred provision whether passed before or after the passing of this Act
(other than a question authorised by any of the foregoing provisions of this
Part to be so referred and determined) to be referred to and determined by any
statutory tribunal shall or may be determined instead by the Lands Tribunal if
it appears to the Ministry that the questions are appropriate for the Lands
Tribunal as involving valuation of land or for other reasons.

(2) An order made under this section may make such supplementary and
consequential provisions (including provisions for modifying or repealing any
enactment for the time being in force) as may be necessary or expedient for
the purposes of the order, and, without prejudice to the generality of the
foregoing, may

(a)make decisions of the Lands Tribunal in the exercise of the jurisdiction
transferred enforceable in the like manner as those of the statutory tribunal
from which the jurisdiction was transferred;

(b)make special provision as to the selection of members to deal with a case
and as to their sitting with assessors;

(c)apply with or without modifications to the exercise of that jurisdiction by
the Lands Tribunal, or repeal, any provisions as to procedure which governed
its exercise by the statutory tribunal;

(d)preserve the effect of things done in or for the purpose of the exercise of
that jurisdiction by the statutory tribunal.

(3) Where the Lands Tribunal is exercising any jurisdiction transferred to it
by an order made under this section, section 8 shall have effect subject to
the provisions of any order so made with respect to that jurisdiction.

(4) In this section "statutory tribunal" means any Government department,
authority or person entrusted with the determination as arbitrator or
otherwise of questions arising under an enactment, but does not include any of
the ordinary courts of law or a tribunal consisting of one or more than one
judge of any of those courts.


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