The General Commissioners (Jurisdiction and Procedure) (Amendment) Regulations 1999

• Citation: S.I. 1999/3293
• Sections: 6

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the General Commissioners (Jurisdiction and Procedure) (Amendment) Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 1st January 2000.

Section 2 Interpretation

In these Regulations “the principal Regulations ” means the General Commissioners (Jurisdiction and Procedure) Regulations 1994 and any reference to a numbered regulation is a reference to the regulation bearing that number in the principal Regulations.

Section 3 Amendments to the principal Regulations

In regulation 16(5) after the word “above” there shall be inserted the words “, other than a notice setting out a final determination made in accordance with regulation 19(2)(b),”.

Section 4 Amendments to the principal Regulations

In regulation 18(2)(c) for “47” there shall be substituted “46D ”.

Section 5 Amendments to the principal Regulations

For regulation 19 there shall be substituted–

References of questions to other tribunals

(19)

(1) A question in an appeal which is required to be determined in accordance with section 46B, 46C, 46D or 47B of the Management Act shall be referred to the appropriate tribunal by the Tribunal before whom the appeal is brought or, if the hearing of the appeal has not begun, by an inspector or other officer of the Board.

(2) Where any question in an appeal has been referred to another tribunal in accordance with paragraph (1) above, the Tribunal before whom the appeal is brought–

(a) shall make a final determination of the remaining question or questions in the appeal, and shall at the request of any party state a case thereon under regulation 22, without awaiting the determination of the question referred to the other tribunal, and

(b) shall make a final determination of the appeal (in accordance with regulation 16) once all the questions in the appeal have been finally determined.

(3) Where–

(a) a question in an appeal has been referred to the Special Commissioners in accordance with paragraph (1) above, and

(b) that question is the sole question in dispute in the appeal,

the proceedings shall be transferred to the Special Commissioners by the Tribunal before whom the appeal is brought or, if the hearing of the appeal has not yet begun, shall be brought before the Special Commissioners by an inspector or other officer of the Board.

(4) The reference in paragraph (2)(b) above to all questions in the appeal having been finally determined is a reference to a time when no further appeals in relation to those questions, whether by way of case stated under these Regulations or under any other enactment, are pending.

Section 6 Amendments to the principal Regulations

In regulation 20–

(a) in paragraph (1) after the word “Tribunal”, where it first occurs, there shall be inserted the words “, other than a final determination to which regulation 19(2)(b) refers,”;

(b) in paragraph (3) for the words “within not less than twenty eight days ” there shall be substituted the words “within a period of time stated in the notice, not being less than twenty eight days,”.