Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1968

Supplemental U.K.

50 Interpretation etc.—general. U.K.

(1) Subject to subsection (7) of section 45 of this Act, in this Act—

• “the Minister” means, except in the application of this Act to Scotland, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and, in the application of this Act to Scotland, the Secretary of State;

• “the Ministers” means the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State acting jointly; and

• “notice” means notice in writing.

(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1

(3) Any reference in this Act to any enactment is a reference to it as amended, and includes a reference to it as applied, by or under any other enactment including an enactment in this Act.

(4) Where an offence under this Act committed by a body corporate is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of, any director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate or any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity, he as well as the body corporate shall be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.

In this subsection “director”, in relation to a body corporate established by or under any enactment for the purpose of carrying on under national ownership any industry or undertaking or part of an industry or undertaking, being a body corporate whose affairs are managed by its members, means a member of that body corporate.

Textual Amendments

F1 S. 50(2) repealed by Water Act 1973 (c. 37), Sch. 9

51 Orders, regulations and schemes. U.K.

(1) Any power conferred by this Act to make regulations or a scheme or an order (other than an order under section 23(1)(a)) shall be exercisable by statutory instrument.

(2) Any statutory instrument containing an order or regulations made under any provision of this Act, other than an order under section 23(1)(b) and regulations under section 2, shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

(3) No scheme shall be made under this Act unless a draft of the scheme has been approved by each House of Parliament.

(4) Any order or scheme made under any provision of this Act may be revoked or varied by a subsequent order or scheme made thereunder.

(5) Any order, scheme or regulations under this Act may make different provision for different circumstances; and nothing in any other provision of this Act authorising the making of different provision for such different cases as may be specified in that provision shall be construed as prejudicing the generality of the power conferred by this subsection.

52 Repeals. X1 U.K.

The enactments mentioned in Schedule 8 to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in column 3 of that Schedule.

Editorial Information

X1 The text of ss. 43(1)(2), 52, Schs. 7, 8 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.

53 Financial provisions. U.K.

There shall be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament—

(a) any expenses incurred by virtue of this Act by any Minister or government department . . . F2 ; and

(b) any increase attributable to the provisions of this Act in the sums payable out of such moneys under any other Act;

and any sums received by the Minister or the Ministers by virtue of this Act shall be paid into the Exchequer.

Textual Amendments

F2 Words repealed by Post Office Act 1969 (c. 48), Sch. 11 Pt. II

54 Short title, commencement and extent, etc. U.K.

(1) This Act may be cited as the Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1968.

(2) Part I of this Act shall come into operation on the expiration of two months beginning with the date on which this Act is passed.

(3) This Act, except Part IV and sections 10, 13, 47 and 48, extends to Scotland, and sections 11, 14 and 16 and Part III of this Act extend to Scotland only.

(4) This Part of this Act, except sections 41, 42 and 46 to 48, extends to Northern Ireland; . . . F3

Textual Amendments

F3 Words repealed by Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 (c. 36), Sch. 6 Pt. I