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Agriculture Act 1970
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60 Cottage holdings.E+W
(1)No land shall after the commencement of this Part of this Act—
(a)be sold by a county council [F1, a county borough council], . . . F2 or the Greater London Council as a cottage holding, or
(b)be let by such a council as a cottage holding by a letting effected after the commencement of this Part of this Act, whether the land was previously so let or not, or
(c)be acquired (whether by way of purchase or lease) by such a council for the purpose of being sold or let as a cottage holding.
(2)The provisions of section 52(2) of this Act shall have effect in relation to land which immediately before the commencement of this Part of this Act is held by any such council for the purposes of cottage holdings as they have effect in relation to land then held by a smallholdings authority for the purposes of smallholdings as if in those provisions—
(a)any reference to a smallholdings authority were a reference to such a council, and
(b)the reference to section 2 of the M1Small Holdings and Allotments Act 1926 included a reference to that section as applied to cottage holdings by section 12 of that Act or by section 12 of the M2Agricultural Land (Utilisation) Act 1931.
(3)Any regulations made by the Ministers in the exercise of the powers conferred by section 52(2) of this Act as applied by subsection (2) of this section may revoke any regulations for the time being in force under section 2 of the Small Holdings and Allotments Act 1926 in their application to cottage holdings.
(4)Where any regulations exercise the power of revocation conferred by subsection (3) of this section, the regulations may contain such transitional provisions with respect to matters in progress under the regulations so revoked as the Ministers may consider appropriate having regard to the provisions of sections 52(2) and 62 of this Act.
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F1Words in s. 60(1) inserted (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 19, s. 66(6), Sch. 16 para. 38(3) (with ss. 54(5)(7), 55(5), Sch. 17 paras. 22(1), 23(2)); S.I. 1996/396, art. 4, Sch. 2
F2Words repealed by Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), Sch. 30
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