Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1968

Miscellaneous U.K.

[F1 42 Compensation in connection with compulsory acquisition etc. of agricultural holdings. E+W+S

(1) Subject to the following provisions of this section, where in pursuance of any enactment providing for the acquisition or taking of possession of land compulsorily an acquiring authority acquire the interest in an agricultural holding or any part of it of the tenant of the holding or take possession of such a holding or any part of it, the compensation payable by the authority to the tenant in connection with the acquisition or taking of possession shall be assessed without regard to the tenant’s prospects, if any, of remaining in possession of the holding after the relevant date.

(2) In subsection (1) of this section “the relevant date” means the earliest date on which, apart from the acquisition or taking of possession, the landlord could obtain possession of the holding in pursuance of such a notice to quit as is mentioned in paragraph (c) below if—

(a) the tenant exercised any tenant’s option to extend or renew the tenancy in any case where, apart from this section, he would benefit from doing so; and

(b) the landlord disregarded any provision in the contract of tenancy or lease enabling him to resume possession of the holding or to determine the tenancy by notice before the date fixed for the expiration of its term or before the termination of the stipulated endurance of the lease; and

(c) the landlord served a valid notice to quit on the tenant in respect of the holding on the date of service of notice to treat in respect of the acquisition or the date of the taking of possession, as the case may be, or as soon thereafter as he became entitled to serve such a notice to quit; and

(d) the provisions of section 24 of the principal Act or section 25 of the principal Scottish Act (which restrict the operation of notices to quit) did not apply to the said notice to quit;

and for the purposes of this subsection any such notice as is mentioned in section 3(1) of the principal Act (which refers to notices of intention to terminate the tenancy of an agricultural holding granted for a term of two years or upwards) shall be deemed to be a notice to quit.

(3) Subsection (1) of this section shall not apply to such an acquisition or taking of possession as is there mentioned—

(a) in the case of such an acquisition, unless the date on which notice to treat in respect of the interest to be acquired is served or treated as served on the tenant by the acquiring authority is after the date of the passing of this Act;

(b) where in the case of such a taking of possession prior notice of the taking of possession is by virtue of any enactment required to be served on the tenant by the acquiring authority, unless the date on which the notice is so served is after the date of the passing of this Act.

(4) Section 17 of this Act shall have effect as if any reference to Part II of this Act, other than the reference in subsection (4), included a reference to the foregoing provisions of this section.

(5) Nothing in this section shall be construed as prejudicing the provisions of any other enactment under which, apart from this section, compensation in respect of any such compulsory acquisition or taking of possession as is mentioned in subsection (1) of this section falls to be assessed without regard to the prospects there mentioned.]

Textual Amendments

F1 S. 42 repealed with saving by Land Compensation Act 1973 (c. 26), ss. 48(4)(6), 89(3), Sch. 3 except in relation to compensation falling to be assessed by reference to prices current on a date before 23. 5. 1973 and except for the purposes of s. 48(6) of that Act

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 By Agricultural Holdings Act 1986 (c. 5, SIF 2:3), ss. 99, 100, Sch. 13 para. 3, Sch. 14 para. 47 it is provided that in s. 42(2), as it has effect for the purposes of s. 48(6) of the Land Compensation Act 1973 for “section 24 of the principal Act/ “ there is substituted (E.W.)”section 26 of the Agricultural Holdings Act 1986” and for “principal Act” in the second place where occurring there is substituted “Agricultural Holdings Act 1986”

F2 43 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . U.K.

Textual Amendments

F2 S. 43 repealed (8.5.1998) by 1997 c. 66, s. 52, Sch. 4; S.I. 1998/1028, art. 2

44 Extension of Agricultural and Forestry Associations Act 1962. U.K.

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(1) Section 1 of the M1 Agricultural and Forestry Associations Act 1962 (which confers exemptions from Part I of the M2 Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1956 for certain co-operative associations formed for purposes of agriculture or forestry) shall apply to corresponding associations of persons engaged in the business of catching or taking fish or shellfish, and accordingly shall have effect as if—

(a) references to persons occupying land used for agriculture or forestry or both included references to persons engaged in the business aforesaid;

(b) references to produce produced by members of an association on land so occupied and used, and to the production of such produce on such land, included references to fish or shellfish caught or taken by such members, and to the catching or taking of fish or shellfish, in the course of their business.

(2) Without prejudice to the foregoing provision, the said section 1 shall apply to any co-operative association having as its object or primary object to assist its members—

(a) in the carrying on of the businesses of agriculture or forestry or both on land occupied by them; or

(b) in the carrying on of businesses consisting in the catching or taking of fish or shellfish,

whether or not the conditions specified in paragraphs (a) to (c) of subsection (1) of that section are satisfied; and for the purposes of this subsection “co-operative association” has the meaning assigned by subsection (9) of section 70 of the M3 Finance Act 1965, and references to members of a co-operative association include references to members of any such association which is a member of that association.

(3) The restrictions in respect of which exemption from Part I of the Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1956 is conferred by subsection (2) of the said section 1 shall include restrictions accepted or treated as accepted as mentioned in that subsection in respect of the production of produce, the catching or taking of fish or shellfish, or the supply of produce, fish or shellfish by members of an association to which the section applies.

(4) This section shall be construed as one with the M4 Agricultural and Forestry Associations Act 1962.

Textual Amendments

F3 S. 44 repealed by Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1976 (c. 34), s. 44, Sch. 6

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C2 S. 12 amended by (E.W.) Land Compensation Act 1973 (c. 26), s. 48(5) and (S.) Land Compensation (Scotland) Act 1973 (c. 56), s. 44(4)

Marginal Citations

M1 1962 c. 29.

M2 1956 c. 68.

M3 1965 c. 25.

M4 1962 c. 29.

F4 45 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . U.K.

Textual Amendments

F4 S. 45 repealed (1.3.2000) by S.I. 2000/311, art. 8

46 Further functions of agricultural wages committees. E+W+S

[F5 (1) The Minister may by regulations—

(a) provide that the functions under the M5 Agricultural Wages Act 1948 of agricultural wages 0committees established in pursuance of that Act shall include such further functions as the Minister considers appropriate for the purpose of enabling or requiring those committees to give effect to orders made or which may be made by the Agricultural Wages Board for England and Wales under that Act and (without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provisions in this paragraph) to determine whether any person is a member of any special class of workers as defined in such an order;

(b) make provision with respect to the procedure to be followed in connection with the exercise of the further functions aforesaid and provide that section 15 of that Act (which relates to evidence of resolutions and orders) shall apply with such modifications as the Minister considers appropriate to decisions made in the exercise of those functions.

(2) In this section “functions” means powers and duties.]

F6 (3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F5 S. 46 repealed (1.10.2013 for E.) by Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (c. 24), s. 103(3), Sch. 20 para. 2; S.I. 2013/1455, art. 3(b), Sch. 2 (with art. 4(2)(4)) (as amended (7.9.2013) by S.I. 2013/2271, art. 2)

F6 S. 46(3) repealed by Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1972 (c. 62), Sch. 6

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C3 S. 46: power to amend conferred (1.4.1999) by 1998 c. 39, s. 47(2)(d)(3) (with s. 36); S.I. 1999/685, art. 2, Sch.

S. 46: transfer of functions (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/672, art. 2, Sch. 1

Marginal Citations

M5 1948 c. 47.

47 Further exemptions of transfers of land from control of Rural Development Boards. E+W

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F7 [A]fter paragraph (f) of section 50(3) of the said Act of 1967 (which exempts certain transfers from the requirement aforesaid) there shall be inserted the following paragraphs:—

“(g) a river authority (including the Conservators of the River Thames and the Lee Conservancy Catchment Board);

(h) an internal drainage board within the meaning of the Land Drainage Act 1930”.

Textual Amendments

F7 Words repealed by Water Act 1989 (c.15, SIF 130), ss. 58(7), 101(1), 141(6), 160(1)(2)(4), 189(4)–(10), 190, 193(1), Sch. 26 paras. 3(1)(2), 17, 40(4), 41(1), 57(6), 58, Sch. 27

48 Extension of s. 3 of Parks Regulation (Amendment) Act 1926. E+W

In section 3 of the M6 Parks Regulation (Amendment) Act 1926 (under which, among other things, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food has power to regulate the conduct of persons using the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew), the second reference to the said Gardens shall include a reference to any park, garden, recreation ground, open space and other land for the time being vested in or under the control or management of the said Minister.

Marginal Citations

M6 1926 c. 36.

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Textual Amendments

F8 S. 49 repealed by Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c. 36), Sch. 6 Pt. I