The Valuation and Community Charge Tribunals (Transfer of Jurisdiction) Regulations 1989

5.  The Drainage Rates (Appeals) Regulations 1970(1) shall have effect as if they were amended as follows:–

(i) in regulation 2, by the substitution of the definitions set out in column 2 of Table 3 for the definitions mentioned in column 1:

TABLE 3

(1)	(2)
“the court”	““the tribunal” means the valuation and community charge tribunal convened under section 79(1) of the Land Drainage Act 1976 to hear and determine the appeal;”
“the chairman”	““the chairman” means the member of the tribunal presiding at the hearing;”
“panel area”	““tribunal area” means the area for which a valuation and community charge tribunal is established in accordance with regulations under Schedule 11 to the Local Government Finance Act 1988;”
“prescribed panel”	““prescribed tribunal” has the meaning assigned to it by regulation 3;”
“relevant panel area”	““relevant tribunal area”, in relation to a divided hereditament, means a tribunal area in which a part of the hereditament is situated;”

(ii) in regulation 2, by the omission of the definition of “panel” and by the substitution of “tribunal area” for “panel area” in the definition of “undivided hereditament”;

(iii) in regulations 3 to 9 and 11 to 16 by the substitution of the words in column 2 of Table 4 for the words in column 1:–

TABLE 4

(1)	(2)
“the panel”	“the valuation and community charge tribunal”
“panel area”	“tribunal area”
“prescribed panel”	“prescribed tribunal”
“relevant panel area”	“relevant tribunal area”
“the court”	“the valuation and community charge tribunal”.

(1)

S.I. 1970/1152. The Regulations have effect as if made under the Land Drainage Act 1976 by virtue of paragraph 6 of Schedule 6 to that Act.