http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/10-11/48/section/10/1991-02-01Agriculture Act 1947An Act to make further provision for agriculture.1981-05-01texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2024-05-181991-02-01 Part II Good Estate Management and Good Husbandry Rules of good estate management and good husbandry<CommentaryRef Ref="c633851"/>Good estate management.101For the purposes of this Act, an owner of agricultural land shall be deemed to fulfil his responsibilities to manage it in accordance with the rules of good estate management in so far as his management of the land and (so far as it affects the management of that land) of other land managed by him is such as to be reasonably adequate, having regard to the character and situation of the land and other relevant circumstances, to enable an occupier of the land reasonably skilled in husbandry to maintain efficient production as respects both the kind of produce and the quality and quantity thereof.2In determining whether the management of land is such as aforesaid, regard shall be had, but without prejudice to the generality of the provisions of the last foregoing subsection, to the extent to which the owner is providing, improving, maintaining and repairing fixed equipment on the land in so far as is necessary to enable an occupier of the land reasonably skilled in husbandry to maintain efficient production as aforesaid.3The responsibilities under the rules of good estate management of an owner of land in the occupation of another person shall not in relation to the maintenance and repair of fixed equipment include an obligation to do anything which that other person is under an obligation to do by virtue of any agreement.Ss. 10, 11 applied by Agricultural Holdings Act 1986 (c. 5, SIF 2:3), s. 96(3)
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