Livestock Rearing Act 1951

1 Extension of class of land for improvement of which grants may be made under the principal Act. U.K.

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(2) Accordingly—

(a) in subsection (3) of section one of the principal Act, for the definitions of hill farming land and hill farming purposes there shall be substituted respectively the definitions of livestock rearing purposes set out in the next following subsection; and

(b) for references in the principal Act (elsewhere than in the said subsection (3)) to hill farming land and hill farming purposes there shall be substituted respectively references to livestock rearing land and livestock rearing purposes, and for references in that Act, [F2 in paragraph (d) of subsection (1) of section nine of the M1 Agricultural Holdings Act, 1948], and [F3 in paragraph (d) of subsection (1) of section eight of the M2 Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act, 1949], to hill farming land improvement schemes there shall be substituted references to livestock rearing land improvement schemes.

(3) In this section—

(a) the expression “livestock rearing” means land situated in an area consisting of mountains, hills or heath, being land which is, or by improvement could be made, suitable for use for the breeeding, rearing and maintainance of sheep or cattle but not for the carrying on, to any material extent, of dairy farming, the production, to any material extent, of fat sheep or fat cattle or the production of crops in quantity materially greater than that necessary to feed the number of sheep or cattle capable of being maintained on the land;

(b) the expression “livestock rearing purposes” means the breeding, rearing and maintainance of sheep or cattle, and includes other activities carried on in connection therewith.

Textual Amendments

F1 S. 1(1) repealed by Agriculture Act 1970 (c. 40), ss. 35(1), 113(3), Sch. 5 Pt. II

F2 Words repealed ( E.W.) by Agricultural Holdings Act 1984 (c.41), s.10(2), Sch. 4

F3 Words in s. 1(2)(b) repealed (S.) (25.9.1991) by Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 1991 (c. 55, SIF 2:8), ss. 88(2), 89(2), Sch. 13 Pt. I (with s. 45(3), Sch. 12 paraS. 1, 3)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 The text of s. 1(2)(a) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.

C2 The text of s. 1(3) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.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 1948 c. 63.

M2 1949 c. 75.