Agricultural Holdings Act 1986

26 (1) Section 24 of that Act shall be amended as follows. E+W+S

(2) In subsection (1) for the words “Act of 1948” there shall be substituted the words “ Act of 1986 ”.

(3) In subsection (2) for the words “Act of 1948” there shall be substituted the words “ Act of 1986 ”.

(4) In subsection (3) for the words “Act of 1948”, in each place where they occur, there shall be substituted the words “ Act of 1986 ”.

(5) In subsection (5)—

(a) for the words “section forty-four or section fifty-four of the Act of 1948” there shall be substituted the words “ section 69(1) of the Act of 1986 or paragraph 5(1) of Part I of Schedule 9 to that Act ”, and

(b) for the words “section forty-five or section fifty-five of the Act of 1948” there shall be substituted the words “ section 69(2) or (3) of the Act of 1986 or paragraph 5(2) of Part I of Schedule 9 to that Act ”.

(6) In subsection (6)—

(a) for the words “Act of 1948”, in both places where they occur, there shall be substituted the words “ Act of 1986 ”, and

(b) for the words “subsection (3) of section seventy” there shall be substituted the words “ section 83(4) ”;

and that subsection in its application to England and Wales shall continue to have effect with the substitution for each of the words “four” and “five” of the word “ eight ” made by paragraph 29 of Schedule 3 to the M1 Agricultural Holdings Act 1984.

(7) In subsection (7)—

(a) for the words “Act of 1948”, in both places where they occur, there shall be substituted the words “ Act of 1986 ” and

(b) for the words “section fifty-six” there shall be substituted the words “ section 70 ”.

(8) In subsection (8) for the words “Act of 1948” there shall be substituted the words “ Act of 1986 ”.

(9) In subsection (9) for the words “the Third Schedule to the Act of 1948” there shall be substituted the words “ Schedule 7 to the Act of 1986 ”.

(10) After subsection (9) there shall be inserted—

“(9A) In this section the references to the Act of 1986 in subsections (1)(b), (7) and (8) and the second and fourth references to that Act in subsection (3) include references to the Agricultural Holdings Act 1948 (in this Act called the Act of 1948) and the reference to section 70 of the Act of 1986 in subsection (7)(b) includes a reference to section 56 of the Act of 1948.”

[F1 (11) For subsection (10) there shall be substituted—

“(10) In the application of this section to Scotland, for references—

(a) to the Act of 1986 and to sections 70 and 83(4) of that Act there shall be substituted respectively references to the Scottish Act of 1949 and to sections 56 and 68(3) of that Act,

(b) to subsections (1), (2) and (3) of section 69 of the Act of 1986 there shall be substituted respectively references to sections 54, and subsections (1) and (2) of section 55 of the Scottish Act of 1949,

(c) to Parts I and II of Schedule 7 to the Act of 1986 and to the first day of March 1948 there shall be substituted references to Parts I and II of Schedule 1 to the Scottish Act of 1949 and to the first day of November 1948, and

(d) to sub-paragraphs (1) and (2) of paragraph 5 of Part I of Schedule 9 to the 1986 Act there shall be substituted respectively references to sections 45 and 46 of the Scottish Act of 1949.”]

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 14 para. 26(11) repealed (S.)(25.9.1991) by Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 1991 (c. 55, SIF 2:3), ss. 88(2), 89(2), Sch. 13 Pt. I (with s. 45(3), Sch. 12 paras. 1, 3)

Marginal Citations

M1 1984 c. 41.