Part 2 - Leasehold enfranchisement and extension Section 40: Replacement of Sections 20 and 21 of LRA 1967
Section 40 repeals and replaces Sections 20 and 21 of the LRA 1967 with new Sections 20, 21, 21A, 21B and 21C. The new Sections transfer jurisdiction from the county court to the tribunal for a number of matters and provide the tribunal with additional powers to facilitate the exercise of the tribunal’s expanded jurisdiction.
	New Section 20 replaces the provision of the LRA 1967 governing the jurisdiction of the county court.
	New Section 21 restates and extends the tribunal’s jurisdiction to determine specified matters under the LRA 1967. The new Section gives the tribunal powers to make orders requiring a person to pay certain costs or compensation determined by the tribunal. It gives the tribunal power to deal with cases in which intermediate landlords claim reduction of their rents, exercising the right conferred by the provision inserted into the LRA 1967 by paragraph 8 of Schedule 8. It also gives the tribunal jurisdiction to decide issues relating to the new right to obtain a peppercorn rent (under Section 48 and Schedule 10).
	New Section 21A confers jurisdiction on the tribunal for proceedings for which no specific jurisdiction is otherwise identified or conferred by the provisions of the LRA 1967. But where only the court has the power to grant a remedy sought in such proceedings (even if other remedies that could be granted by the tribunal are also sought), new Section 21A confers jurisdiction for the proceedings as a whole on the court. Where the court has jurisdiction in relation to the proceedings, new Section 21A enables the court to transfer part of the proceedings to the tribunal where the tribunal would have the power to grant the relevant remedy.
	New Section 21B gives both the court and the tribunal the power to make an order requiring a person to comply with any requirement imposed on them under the LRA 1967. Subsection (2) sets out when an application for a compliance order can be made and subsection (3) sets out when an application can be made to the court (rather than the tribunal). Subsection (4) makes provision in relation to enforcement of certain compliance orders made by the tribunal.
	New Section 21C gives the tribunal new powers to make orders in relation to the completion of a conveyance or the grant of an extended lease under the LRA 1967 in certain circumstances. Where there has been a failure to execute a conveyance or extended lease under the LRA 1967, or to pay the relevant price, an application can be made to the tribunal for an order appointing a person to execute the conveyance or lease on behalf of a party to the transaction and/or requiring the tenant to pay the price into the tribunal (or to a specified person).