Supplemental

23Financial provisions

1

There shall be paid out of money provided by Parliament—

a

any expenses incurred by a Minister by virtue of this Act; and

b

any increase attributable to this Act in the sums payable out of money so provided under any other Act.

2

Any sums received by a Minister under this Act shall be paid into the Consolidated Fund.

24Short title, commencement, consequential amendments, repeals and extent

1

This Act may be cited as the Agriculture Act 1986.

2

Sections 8, 10, 13 to 16 above and the repeals consequential on sections 8 to 10 above shall come into force on such date as the Ministers acting jointly may by order made by statutory instrument appoint and the remaining provisions of this Act (except for sections 12 and 18(13)) shall come into force at the end of the period of two months beginning with the day on which it is passed; and in this subsection " the Ministers " means the Ministers responsible for agriculture in the parts of the United Kingdom to which the provision in question extends.

3

An order under subsection (2) above may appoint different dates for the coming into force of different provisions.

4

The provisions mentioned in Schedule 3 to this Act shall have effect subject to the amendments there specified (being amendments consequential on the provisions of this Act).

5

The enactments mentioned in Schedule 4 to this Act (which include some spent provisions) are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.

6

Sections 1, 13, 15, 18(7) and 21 above and Schedule 1 to this Act do not extend to Scotland.

7

The provisions of this Act do not extend to Northern Ireland except for sections 4 to 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 18(13) and 22, this section and the provisions of Schedules 3 and 4 which affect enactments extending there.