4 Power to add to jurisdiction of F1Upper Tribunal or Lands Tribunal for ScotlandF1.
1
His Majesty may by Order in Council direct that questions which are required or authorised by any Act (including a local or private Act), or instrument made under any such Act, to be determined by any statutory tribunal shall or may be determined instead by the F2 Upper Tribunal or the Lands Tribunal for Scotland (“the transferee Tribunal”)F2 if it appears to His Majesty—
a
b
that it is desirable to transfer the jurisdiction to determine those questions from the first-mentioned tribunal to the F3transferee TribunalF3 either—
i
to promote uniformity of decision; or
ii
to use economically the services of those having experience in the valuation of land or other special qualifications; or
iii
to make possible the winding up of a statutory tribunal having little work to do.
2
The foregoing subsection shall authorise a transfer of the jurisdiction conferred on a statutory tribunal by or under an Act passed after this Act unless that Act contains a direction to the contrary:
Provided that where the jurisdiction is first conferred on the tribunal by or under an Act so passed sub-paragraphs (i) and (ii) of paragraph (b) of the foregoing subsection shall not apply.
F42A
An Order in Council under this section may authorise the transfer to the Upper Tribunal of the jurisdiction of any statutory tribunal exercisable in Northern Ireland unless it appears to Her Majesty that the jurisdiction relates exclusively to matters with respect to which the Northern Ireland Assembly has power to make laws.
F43
An Order in Council under this section may contain such supplementary and consequential provisions as appear to His Majesty to be expedient, and any such provisions may be revoked or varied by a subsequent Order in Council or, if the Order in Council so provides, by rules made under this Act.
4
Without prejudice to the generality of the last foregoing subsection, the provisions thereby authorised to be contained in an Order in Council shall include provisions for the following purposes, that is to say—
a
b
c
d
preserving the effect of things done in or for the purpose of the exercise of that jurisdiction by the said statutory tribunal.
F74A
The supplementary and consequential provisions authorised by subsection (3) to be contained in an Order in Council under this section by virtue of subsection (2A) shall include provisions for the application and adaptation of Northern Ireland legislation.
F75
6
Any Order in Council under this section shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.
7
In this section the expression “statutory tribunal” means any Government department, authority or person entrusted with the judicial determination as arbitrator or otherwise of questions arising under an Act of Parliament, except that the expression does not include—
a
any of the ordinary courts of law or a tribunal consisting of one or more judges of any of those courts; or
b
an arbitrator unless the person to act as arbitrator is designated, or is to be selected from a class or group of persons designated, by the Act or instrument requiring or authorising arbitration.