Agricultural Land (Utilisation) Act 1931

Section 17.

SECOND SCHEDULE Minor Amendments of Small Holdings and Allotments Acts

Enactment to be amended.	Amendment.
The Small Holdings and Allotments Act, 1908 :
Section 52	After the words " the purchase of land " in both places where those words occur there shall be inserted the words " or " the defraying of the expenses of " borrowing for that purpose. "
Section 61	After the word " council," where that word occurs for the second time, there shall be inserted the words " and the " expression ' council of a county "
The Allotments Act, 1925
Section 8	After the word " purchased" there shall be inserted the words " or " appropriated," and after the word " consent," where that word occurs for the second time, there shall be inserted the words " may be given " unconditionally or subject to such " conditions as the Minister thinks fit, " but "
The Small Holdings and Allotments Act, 1926
Section 2	In subsection (2) of the section, for the words " moneys provided by Parliament " there shall, as from the first day of April, nineteen hundred and thirty-one, be substituted the words " Small Holdings and Allotments Account, " and at the end of the section there shall be inserted the following subsections:— “(7) Land in respect of which a " contribution has been made or " undertaken to be made by the " Minister under this section shall " not be sold, mortgaged, exchanged," let, or appropriated, for any pur-" pose other than the provision of " small holdings except with the " consent of the Minister, who may " give such consent either unconditionally or subject to such conditions as he thinks fit." (8) Where the Minister is satisfied that a council has reason-" ably incurred expenses in connection with the preparation of " proposals or estimates with a " view to the submission thereof to "the Minister under this section " he may if he thinks fit, notwithstanding that the proposals or " estimates are not submitted to " him or if submitted are not " approved by him, make contributions towards the expenses so " incurred, in the likemanner and to " the like extent as if the expenses " had been a loss shown in approved " estimates."”
Section 13	After the word " repayable " there shall be inserted the words " with interest at such rate as may be agreed between the council and the purchaser "
Section 14	After the words " provided by " in both places where those words occur there shall be inserted the words " , or " purchased with the assistance of, "