The Valuation Tribunal for Wales Regulations 2010

Transferred appeals

25.—(1) Any appeal to an old Tribunal which was initiated before 1 July 2010 and would, had it been initiated on or after that date, have fallen to be disposed of by the Valuation Tribunal established by regulation 4, will be transferred on 1 July 2010 to, and disposed of by, the Valuation Tribunal.

(2) On and after 1 July 2010—

(a) the relevant statutory provisions will apply as if anything done in relation to the appeal by or in relation to the old Tribunal from which it is transferred or the Clerk, the President or a Chairperson of that old Tribunal, had been done by or in relation to the Valuation Tribunal or, as the case may be, the Clerk, the President or a Chairperson of the Valuation Tribunal, and

(b) any reference (however framed) to a Clerk, President or a Chairperson of an old Tribunal in the relevant statutory provisions or instruments made under them will, so far as is required for giving effect to this regulation, be construed as a reference to the Clerk or, as the case may be, the President or a Chairperson of the Valuation Tribunal.

(3) In this regulation “the relevant statutory provisions” means —

(a) in relation to appeals under section 16 of, or paragraph 3(1) of Schedule 3 to, the 1992 Act, these Regulations;

(b) in relation to appeals under regulations made under section 24 of the 1992 Act, those regulations;

(c) in relation to appeals under Schedule 4A to the 1988 Act (completion notices), under paragraph 5C of Schedule 9 (civil penalties) of the 1988 Act and under regulations made under section 55 of the 1988 Act (“those Regulations”), those Regulations;

(d) in relation to appeals under section 45 of the Land Drainage Act 1991, that Act.