Agriculture (Scotland) Act 1948

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)

C1The text of s. 70(1) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.

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