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Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007

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7Chambers: jurisdiction and PresidentsU.K.
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(1)The Lord Chancellor may, with the concurrence of the Senior President of Tribunals, by order make provision for the organisation of each of the First-tier Tribunal and the Upper Tribunal into a number of chambers.

(2)There is—

(a)for each chamber of the First-tier Tribunal, and

(b)for each chamber of the Upper Tribunal,

to be a person, or two persons, to preside over that chamber.

(3)A person may not at any particular time preside over more than one chamber of the First-tier Tribunal and may not at any particular time preside over more than one chamber of the Upper Tribunal (but may at the same time preside over one chamber of the First-tier Tribunal and over one chamber of the Upper Tribunal).

(4)A person appointed under this section to preside over a chamber is to be known as a Chamber President.

(5)Where two persons are appointed under this section to preside over the same chamber, any reference in an enactment to the Chamber President of the chamber is a reference to a person appointed under this section to preside over the chamber.

(6)The Senior President of Tribunals may (consistently with subsections (2) and (3)) appoint a person who is the Chamber President of a chamber to preside instead, or to preside also, over another chamber.

(7)The [F1Senior President of Tribunals] may (consistently with subsections (2) and (3)) appoint a person who is not a Chamber President to preside over a chamber.

(8)Schedule 4 (eligibility for appointment under subsection (7), appointment of Deputy Chamber Presidents and Acting Chamber Presidents, assignment of judges and other members of the First-tier Tribunal and Upper Tribunal, and further provision about Chamber Presidents and chambers) has effect.

(9)Each of the Lord Chancellor and the Senior President of Tribunals may, with the concurrence of the other, by order—

(a)make provision for the allocation of the First-tier Tribunal's functions between its chambers;

(b)make provision for the allocation of the Upper Tribunal's functions between its chambers;

(c)amend or revoke any order made under this subsection.

Textual Amendments

F1Words in s. 7(7) substituted (1.10.2013) by Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(3), Sch. 13 para. 43; S.I. 2013/2200, art. 3(e) (with savings in S.I. 2013/2192, regs. 48, 49)

Commencement Information

I1S. 7 wholly in force at 3.11.2008; s. 7 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 148; s. 7(1)(9) in force at 19.9.2007 by S.I. 2007/2709, art. 2(a); s. 7(2)-(8) in force at 3.11.2008 by S.I. 2008/2696, {art . 5(a)}

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