1. This Order may be cited as the Agricultural Land Tribunals (Areas) Order 1982 and shall come into operation on 2nd March 1982.
2.—(1) For the purposes of section 73 of the Agriculture Act 1947 there shall be eight areas as specified in column 1 of the Schedule to this Order.
(2) Each area shall comprise the counties and the London Boroughs which are set out in respect of it in column 2 of the said Schedule.
(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 the Agricultural Land Tribunal for the area in which the whole or the greater part of the agricultural holding to which the proceedings relate is situate, and that tribunal shall have power to hear and determine them.
4. The Agricultural Land Tribunals (Areas) Order 1974 and the Agricultural Land Tribunals (Areas) (Amendment) Order 1976 are hereby revoked.
Hailsham of St. Marylebone, C
Dated 29th January 1982