Agricultural Land Tribunals (Areas) Order 1974

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 1974/66

1974 No. 66

AGRICULTURE

The Agricultural Land Tribunals (Areas) Order 1974

14thJanuary 1974

25thJanuary 1974

1stApril 1974

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 73(1) of the Agriculture Act 1947(a), as amended by paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 to the Agriculture Act 1958(b), hereby makes the following Order:—

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Agricultural Land Tribunals (Areas) Order 1973 and shall come into operation on 1st April 1974.

(2) The Interpretation Act 1889(c) shall apply to the interpretation of this Order as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.

2.—(1) For the purposes of section 73 of the Agriculture Act 1947, as amended, there shall be eight areas as specified in column 1 of the Schedule to this Order.

(2) Each area shall comprise—

(a) the counties which are set out in respect of it in column 2 of the said Schedule;

(b) the districts of any county which are set out in respect of it in column 3 of the said Schedule; and

(c) the London boroughs which are set out in respect of it in that column.

(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 that Tribunal, and that Tribunal shall have power to hear and determine them notwithstanding any change in the area for that Tribunal.

4. The Agriculture (Areas for Agricultural Land Tribunals) Order 1959(d) and the Agriculture (Areas for Agricultural Land Tribunals) (Amendment) Order 1960(e) are hereby revoked.

Hailsham of St. Marylebone, C.

Dated 14th January 1974.

(a) 1947 c. 48.

(b) 1958 c. 71.

(c) 1889 c. 63.

(d) S.I. 1959/83 (1959 I, p. 88).

(e) S.I. 1960/1885 (1960 I, p. 89).

SCHEDULE

 Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
                 Areas Counties Districts
                Northern Cumbria
                 Northumberland
                 Tyne and Wear
                 Durham
                 Cleveland
                 Richmondshire
                 Hambleton in
                 North
                 Ryedale York-
                 shire
                 Scarborough
                Yorkshire and Lancashire Lancashire
                 Merseyside
                 Greater Manchester
                 West Yorkshire
                 South Yorkshire
                 Humberside
                 Craven
                 Harrogate in
                 North
                 York York-
                 shire
                 Selby
                East Midland Derbyshire
                 Nottinghamshire
                 Leicestershire
                 Northamptonshire
                 all districts of
                 Lincolnshire except Boston
                 and South Holland
                West Midland Cheshire
                 Staffordshire
                 Salop
                 West Midlands
                 Warwickshire
                 Hereford and Worcester
                South Western
...

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