The Agricultural Land Tribunals (Rules) Order 2007

  1. Introductory Text

  2. 1.Citation and commencement

  3. 2.Agricultural Land Tribunals Rules

  4. 3.Revocations and savings

  5. Signature

    1. SCHEDULE

      Agricultural Land Tribunals Rules

      1. PART 1

        1. 1.Interpretation

      2. PART 2

        1. 2.Making an application

        2. 3.Acknowledgement, registration and delivery of applications

        3. 4.Action by respondent on receipt of an application

        4. 5.Additional matters

        5. 6.Withdrawal of application or reply

        6. 7.Documents and other material to accompany application or reply

      3. PART 3

        1. 8.Amendment of application or reply

        2. 9.Action by interested parties on receipt of copy of application or reply

        3. 10.Addition of new parties to the proceedings

        4. 11.Directions

        5. 12.Case management meeting

        6. 13.Preliminary issues

        7. 14.Varying or setting aside of directions

        8. 15.Failure to comply with directions

        9. 16.Notice of date, time and place

        10. 17.Public notice of hearings

        11. 18.Consolidation or hearing together of applications

        12. 19.Power to decide application without a hearing

        13. 20.Hearing bundles

      4. PART 4

        1. 21.Hearings to be in public

        2. 22.Failure of parties to attend

        3. 23.Procedure at hearing

        4. 24.Evidence of witnesses

        5. 25.Entry on land or premises

        6. 26.Inspection of land or premises by official expert

        7. 27.Expert evidence

        8. 28.Expert’s overriding duty to the Tribunal

        9. 29.Form and content of expert’s report

        10. 30.Decision of Tribunal

        11. 31.Duty to adjourn part of hearing where time limits have not expired

        12. 32.Review of Tribunal’s decision

      5. PART 5

        1. 33.Power to regulate procedure etc.

        2. 34.Power to strike out

        3. 35.Exclusion of persons disrupting proceedings

        4. 36.Enquiries of local authorities etc

        5. 37.Reference to the High Court of a question of law

        6. 38.Modification of Tribunal’s decision following High Court proceedings

      6. PART 6

        1. 39.Consent to operation of notice to quit

        2. 40.Succession on death or retirement

        3. 41.Applications under sections 44, 46 or 55 of the 1986 Act

        4. 42.Procedure at hearing in case of multiple applicants where designation is claimed

        5. 43.Multiple applications under the 1986 Act where there is no designated applicant

        6. 44.Applications under section 67 of the 1986 Act

        7. 45.Applications under the Land Drainage Act 1991

      7. PART 7

        1. 46.Review of directions

        2. 47.Irregularities

        3. 48.Proof of documents and decisions

        4. 49.Method of delivering and receipt of documents

        5. 50.Substituted delivery of documents

        6. 51.Variation of time limits

  7. Explanatory Note