
1 
This Order may be cited as the Contracting Out of Functions (Tribunal Staff) Order 2001 and shall come into force on the day following that on which it is made.
2 

(1) The functions described in paragraph (2) below may be exercised by, or by the employees of, such persons as the Lord Chancellor may authorise to do so.
(2) The functions are those conferred on the Lord Chancellor by the enactments listed in the left-hand column of the Table below, so far as they relate to the provision of officers and other staff for the tribunals listed in the right-hand column of that Table.

Provision Tribunal
Lands Tribunal Act 1949 section 2(7) Lands Tribunal
Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 Schedule 2 paragraph 7 Immigration Appeal Tribunal
Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 Schedule 3 paragraph 7 Adjudicators for the purposes of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
3 
Nothing in this Order shall have the effect of authorising any person—
(a) to make judicial decisions or advise any person making such decisions;
(b) to exercise any judicial discretion or advise any person exercising any such discretion; or
(c) to exercise any power of arrest.
Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor
Rosie Winterton
Parliamentary Secretary
Lord Chancellor’s Department
31st October 2001