# The Agricultural Land Tribunals (Areas) Order 1982 S.I. 1982/97 · made 29 January 1982 This Order constitutes new areas for Agricultural Land Tribunals. The Yorkshire and Lancashire, East Midland and West Midland Areas cease to exist and the counties formerly included in those areas become part of the areas to be known as Yorkshire and Humberside, Midlands, Western and Eastern. PDFs: Printed copy https://openlegislation.uk/agricultural-land-tribunals-areas-order-1982/pdf/uksi_19820097_en.pdf ## Introductory text AGRICULTURE Made 29th January 1982 Laid before Parliament 8th February 1982 Coming into Operation 2nd March 1982 The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 73(1) of the Agriculture Act 1947, hereby makes the following Order:— ## 1 This Order may be cited as the Agricultural Land Tribunals (Areas) Order 1982 and shall come into operation on 2nd March 1982. ## 2 (1) For the purposes of section 73 of the Agriculture Act 1947 there shall be eight areas as specified in column 1 of the Schedule to this Order. (2) Each area shall comprise the counties and the London Boroughs which are set out in respect of it in column 2 of the said Schedule. (3) For the purposes of the preceding paragraph and of the said Schedule the Isles of Scilly shall be treated as if they were a county. ## 3 Any proceedings which on the coming into operation of this Order are pending before an Agricultural Land Tribunal may thereafter be continued before the Agricultural Land Tribunal for the area in which the whole or the greater part of the agricultural holding to which the proceedings relate is situate, and that tribunal shall have power to hear and determine them. ## 4 The Agricultural Land Tribunals (Areas) Order 1974 and the Agricultural Land Tribunals (Areas) (Amendment) Order 1976 are hereby revoked. ## Signature Hailsham of St. Marylebone, C Dated 29th January 1982 ## Column 1 Column 2 Areas Counties and London Boroughs Northern Cleveland Cumbria Durham Northumberland Tyne and Wear Yorkshire and Humberside Humberside North Yorkshire South Yorkshire West Yorkshire Eastern Bedfordshire Cambridgeshire Essex Hertfordshire Lincolnshire Norfolk Northamptonshire Suffolk London Boroughs north of the river Thames except Richmond upon Thames Midlands Derbyshire Herefordshire and Worcestershire Leicestershire Nottinghamshire Warwickshire West Midlands Western Cheshire Greater Manchester Lancashire Merseyside Shropshire Staffordshire South Western Avon Cornwall Devon Dorset Gloucestershire Somerset Wiltshire Isles of Scilly South Eastern Berkshire Buckinghamshire East Sussex Hampshire Isle of Wight Kent Oxfordshire Surrey West Sussex London Boroughs south of the river Thames including Richmond upon Thames Welsh Clwyd Dyfed Gwent Gwynedd Mid Glamorgan Powys South Glamorgan West Glamorgan ## Explanatory note This Order constitutes new areas for Agricultural Land Tribunals. The Yorkshire and Lancashire, East Midland and West Midland Areas cease to exist and the counties formerly included in those areas become part of the areas to be known as Yorkshire and Humberside, Midlands, Western and Eastern. --- Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1982/97 (the official version) Page: https://openlegislation.uk/agricultural-land-tribunals-areas-order-1982 Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.