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Livestock Rearing Act 1951

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Livestock Rearing Act 1951, Section 1 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 30 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 Extension of class of land for improvement of which grants may be made under the principal Act.U.K.

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(2)Accordingly—

(a)in subsection (3) of section one of the principal Act, for the definitions of hill farming land and hill farming purposes there shall be substituted respectively the definitions of livestock rearing purposes set out in the next following subsection; and

(b)for references in the principal Act (elsewhere than in the said subsection (3)) to hill farming land and hill farming purposes there shall be substituted respectively references to livestock rearing land and livestock rearing purposes, and for references in that Act, [F2in paragraph (d) of subsection (1) of section nine of the M1Agricultural Holdings Act, 1948], and [F3in paragraph (d) of subsection (1) of section eight of the M2Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act, 1949], to hill farming land improvement schemes there shall be substituted references to livestock rearing land improvement schemes.

(3)In this section—

(a)the expression “livestock rearing” means land situated in an area consisting of mountains, hills or heath, being land which is, or by improvement could be made, suitable for use for the breeeding, rearing and maintainance 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;

(b)the expression “livestock rearing purposes” means the breeding, rearing and maintainance of sheep or cattle, and includes other activities carried on in connection therewith.

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C1The text of s. 1(2)(a) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.

C2The text of s. 1(3) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.

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