Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Act 1919

8 Additional powers of committees

(1) The Board may authorise, subject to any restrictions or conditions they think fit, an agricultural committee or a sub-committee thereof to exercise on behalf of the Board any of the powers of the Board -under the provisions of Part IV. of the [7 & 8 Geo. 5. c. 46.] Corn Production Act, 1917, or Part II. of the [8 & 9 Geo. 5. c. 17.] Land Drainage Act, 1918, notwithstanding that the committee or subcommittee is not constituted in accordance with those provisions, or any powers of the Board in relation to land acquired by them under the [6 & 7 Geo. 5. c. 38.] Small Holding Colonies Acts, 1916 and [8 & 9 Geo. 5. c. 26.] 1918.

(2) The agricultural committee shall appoint a small holdings and allotments sub-committee and a diseases of animals subcommittee, who shall respectively act as the small holdings and allotments committee required to be established under section fifty of the [8 Edw. 7. c. 36.] Small Holdings and Allotments Act, 1908, and as the executive committee appointed under the [57 & 58 Vict. c. 57.] Diseases of Animals Act, 1894, though the sub-committee may not be constituted in accordance with the provisions of those Acts. Any power of the county council or borough council exerciseable under the Small Holdings and Allotments Act, 1908, or any Act amending the same (except the power to raise a rate or loan) shall be exerciseable by the sub-committee so appointed until the thirty-first day of March nineteen hundred and twenty-six, notwithstanding that the exercise of such power has not been delegated to the sub-committee under the preceding section.

(3) The small holdings and allotments sub-committee shall comprise one or more members as representing tenants of small holdings and allotments.

(4) A county agricultural committee (other than an agricultural committee for the administrative county of London) shall make such inquiries as appear to them to be desirable with a view to formulating schemes for the development of rural industries and social life in rural places, and for the co-ordination of action by local authorities and other bodies by which such development may be effected, and shall report the result of such inquiries to the Board and to any local authority or body concerned, and the expenses incurred by the committee under this subsection to such amount as may be sanctioned by the Board with the approval of the Treasury shall be defrayed by the Board.