4 Power to add to jurisdiction of [Upper Tribunal or Lands Tribunal for Scotland]

4  Power to add to jurisdiction of [Upper Tribunal or Lands Tribunal for Scotland]

(1)     His Majesty may by Order in Council direct that questions which are required or authorised by any Act (including a local or private Act), or instrument made under any such Act, to be determined by any statutory tribunal shall or may be determined instead by the [Upper Tribunal or the Lands Tribunal for Scotland (“the transferee Tribunal”)] if it appears to His Majesty—

(a)     that the questions are appropriate for the [transferee Tribunal] as involving valuation of land or for other reasons; and

(b)     that it is desirable to transfer the jurisdiction to determine those questions from the first-mentioned tribunal to the [transferee Tribunal] either—

(i)     to promote uniformity of decision; or

(ii)     to use economically the services of those having experience in the valuation of land or other special qualifications; or

(iii)     to make possible the winding up of a statutory tribunal having little work to

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