Agriculture (Scotland) Act 1948

Part VI Administrative S

68—69 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1 S

Textual Amendments

F1 Ss. 68, 69 repealed by Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1972 (c. 62, SIF 2:1), s. 21(2), Sch. 6

The Land Court S

70 Provisions as to the appointment of additional members of the LandCourt. S

(1) The number of persons who may be appointed by His Majesty by virtue of section three of the Small Landholders (Scotland) Act, 1911, to bemembers of the Scottish Land Court (in this Act referred to as “the Land Court”) shall be increased from five to seven ; and accordingly the said section three shall have effect as if in subsection (1) for the word “five” there were substituted the word “seven.”

(2) Any increase arising by reason of the provisions of this section in the sums charged on the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom under the said section three, and in the expenditure incurred under the M1 Scottish Land Court Act, 1938, shall respectively be charged on and paid out of that fund and defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 The text of s. 70(1) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.

Marginal Citations

M1 1938 c. 31.

71 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2 S

Textual Amendments

F2 S. 71 repealed with savings by Agriculture Act 1958 (c.71), s. 10(5), Sch. 2 Pt. I

72 Proceedings of the Land Court. S

The provisions of the Small Landholders (Scotland) Acts, 1886 to 1931, with regard to the Land Court shall, with any necessary modifications, apply for the purpose of the determination of any matter which they are required by or under this Act to determine, in like manner as those provisions apply for the purpose of the determination by the Land Court of matters referred to them under those Acts.

Agricultural Advisory Committees S

73 Establishment and functions of Agricultural Advisory Committees. S

(1) The Secretary of State may, for each of such districts as he may determine, establish an Agricultural Advisory Committee for the purpose of advising him or any agricultural college or other body concerned with agricultural education or agricultural advisory services in Scotland, on matters relating to—

(a) technical education and development in agriculture,

(b) the improvement of farming practice or of estate management, whether generally or in relation to any particular agricultural land,

(c) agricultural development and improvement schemes administered by him.

(2) The provisions in that behalf of Part II of the Eighth Schedule to this Act shall have effect as to the constitution of Agricultural Advisory Committees and otherwise in relation thereto.