Agriculture Act 1947

Supplementary administrative provisions.

75 Provisions as to land lying partly in one area and partly in another.

Where any land lies partly in the area of the Welsh Agricultural Land Sub-Commission and partly outside that area, or partly in the area of one County Agricultural Executive Committee and partly in the area of another, or partly in the area of one Agricultural Land Tribunal and partly in the area of another, the Minister may direct that for the purposes of anything required or authorised to be done by or before the Sub-Commission or the Agricultural Land Commission, or by or before such a committee or tribunal, as the case may be, in relation to that land the whole of the land shall be deemed to be comprised in the area comprising such part of the land as may be specified in the direction.

76 Dissolution of Councils of Agriculture, the Agricultural Advisory Committee and county agricultural committees established under 9 and 10 Geo. 5. c. 91.

(1) The Councils of Agriculture and the Agricultural Advisory Committee established under Part II of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Act, 1919, and the agricultural committees established under Part III of that Act, are hereby dissolved.

(2) In paragraph (b) of the Schedule to the [11 & 12 Geo. 5. c. 48.] Corn Production Acts (Repeal) Act, 1921 (which empowers the Minister to delegate his functions under that Schedule to the agricultural committee of a county or borough) for the words " the Agricultural Committee of " there shall be substituted the words " the Council of ".

(3) In subsection (2) of section fifteen of the [1 Edw. 7. & 1 Geo. 6. c. 70.] Agriculture Act, 1937 (which provides for the payment of grants for land drainage expenses to the councils of county boroughs, except a county borough which has not established an agricultural committee) the words from "and except the council" to the end of the subsection shall cease to have effect.