An Act to enable a second Secretary to be appointed for the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries.
[20th October 1909]
Be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :
(1)The power of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries to appoint a secretary under section five of the Board of Agriculture Act, 1889, is hereby extended so as to authorise the appointment of two secretaries, and any reference to the secretary in any provision of the [52 & 53 Vict. c. 30.] Board of Agriculture and Fisheries Acts, 1889 and [3 Edw. 7. c. 31.] 1903 (including any provision giving power to pay salaries), shall include a reference to any second secretary appointed in pursuance of the power as so extended.
(2)One of the secretaries of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries shall, not, by reason of his office, be incapable of being elected to or of voting in the Commons House of Parliament.
This Act may be cited as the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries Act, 1909 ; and the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries Acts, 1889 and 1903, and this Act may be cited together as the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries Acts, 1889 to 1909.