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Hill Farming Act 1946

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Point in time view as at 01/02/1991.

Changes to legislation:

Hill Farming Act 1946, Section 1 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 11 November 2024. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations. Help about Changes to Legislation

1 Grants under schemes for improvement of hill farming land. U.K.

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(3)In this Act—

  • [F2the expression “livestock rearing land” means land situated in an area consisting predominantly of mountains, hills or heath, being land which is, or by improvement could be made, suitable for use for the breeding, rearing and maintenance of sheep or cattle but not for the carrying on, to any material extent, of dairy farming, the production, to any material extent, of fat sheep or fat cattle or the production of crops in quantity materially greater than that necessary to feed the number of sheep or cattle capable of being maintained on the land;]

  • [F2the expression “livestock rearing purposes” means the breeding, rearing and maintenance of sheep or cattle, and includes other activities carried on in connection therewith,] and

  • the expression “improvement” means, subject to the provisions of this section, an operation of any of the kinds specified in the First Schedule to this Act, and any operation incidental to, or necessary or proper in the carrying out of, an operation of any such kind or for securing the full benefit thereof.

(4)Subject to the provisions of section thirty-seven of this Act, the Ministers may from time to time by order modify the kinds of operations that are to be treated as improvements for the purposes of this Act by adding to the First Schedule to this Act, or by deleting therefrom, or modifying the description of, a kind of operation for the time being therein specified:

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Textual Amendments

F2Definitions substituted by Livestock Rearing Act 1951 (c. 18), s. 1(2)(a), (3)(a),(b)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C2S. 1(4): Functions of the Secretary of State, the Secretary of State for Scotland or the Secretary of State for Wales transferred to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (27.12.1999) by S.I. 1999/3141, arts. 2(1)(5), 3, Sch.

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