(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order replaces and updates the First-tier Tribunal and Upper Tribunal (Chambers) Order 2008 as amended. As was the case with the 2008 Order, this Order organises the First-tier and Upper Tribunal into chambers and makes provision for the allocation of those tribunals' functions between the chambers. It provides a power for the Senior President of Tribunals to allocate a case to the most appropriate chamber in the event of doubt or dispute, and for a Chamber President to re-allocate a case to another chamber.
The Order also contains further new provision as regards allocation. Proceedings related to functions of the Compliance Officer for the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (concerned with MPs' expenses) are allocated to the Tax Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal. In the Upper Tribunal, any proceedings or a preliminary issue transferred under Tribunal Procedure Rules apart from those allocated to the Tax Chamber are allocated to the Administrative Appeals Chamber. The Order allocates to the appropriate chamber of the Upper Tribunal matters referred from the First-tier Tribunal to the Upper Tribunal for exercise of its enforcement powers. Certain judicial review applications which are within the jurisdiction of the Upper Tribunal are allocated to the Lands Chamber or to the Immigration and Asylum Chamber of the Upper Tribunal.