Part 2 - Leasehold enfranchisement and extension Section 42: Amendment of Part 1 of LRHUDA 1993
Section 42 amends and inserts new provisions into the LRHUDA 1993 to 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.
	Subsection (2) inserts a new Section 27A into the LRHUDA 1993 which gives the tribunal new powers to make orders in relation to the completion of a conveyance under Chapter 1 of the LRHUDA 1993 in certain circumstances. Where there has been a failure to execute a conveyance in accordance with the terms of a contract entered into pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 1, or to pay the relevant price, an application can be made to the tribunal for an order appointing a person to execute the conveyance on behalf of a party to the transaction and/or requiring the nominee purchaser to pay the price into the tribunal (or to a specified person).
	Subsections (3) and (4) amend Sections 48 and 49 of the LRHUDA 1993 to permit the tribunal to make an order appointing a person to execute a new lease on behalf of a party to the transaction and/or requiring the price payable for a new lease to be paid into the tribunal (or to a specified person), where the conditions for making an order under Section 48(3) or Section 49(4) are met.
	Subsection (5) amends Section 90 of the LRHUDA 1993 (which covers the jurisdiction of the county court) and repeals Section 90(2) and (4). Those repeals follow from the general transfer of jurisdiction from the court to the tribunal. Section 90(2) of the LRHUDA 1993 is replaced with new Section 91A of the LRHUDA 1993.
	Subsection (6) replaces Section 91 of the LRHUDA 1993 with new Sections 91 and 91A. New Section 91 restates and extends the tribunal’s jurisdiction to determine certain specified matters under the LRHUDA 1993. New Section 91 gives the tribunal powers to apportion rent in certain circumstances and 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 LRHUDA 1993 by paragraph 9 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 91A confers jurisdiction on the tribunal for proceedings arising under Chapters 1, 2 or 7 of the LRHUDA 1993 for which no specific jurisdiction is otherwise identified or conferred. 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 91A confers jurisdiction for the proceedings as a whole on the court. Where the court has jurisdiction in relation to the proceedings, new Section 91A enables the court to transfer part of the proceedings to the tribunal where the tribunal would have the power to grant the relevant remedy.
	Subsection (7) amends Section 92 of the LRHUDA 1993 to give the tribunal the same power as the court to make an order requiring a person to comply with any requirement imposed on them by any provision in Chapters 1 or 2 of the LRHUDA 1993. The amendments set out when an application for a compliance order can be made to the court (rather than the tribunal) and make provision in relation to enforcement of certain compliance orders made by the tribunal.