The Agriculture (Miscellaneous Time-Limits) Regulations 1959

Statutory Instruments

1959 No. 171

Agriculture

The Agriculture (Miscellaneous Time-Limits) Regulations, 1959

Made

29th January 1959

Laid before Parliament

3rd February 1959

Coming into Operation

4th February 1959

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sub-section (2) of section 30, sub-sections (1) and (2) of section 7, and sub-section (1) of section 94 of the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1948, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following regulations:—

1.—(1) These regulations may be cited as the Agriculture (Miscellaneous Time-Limits) Regulations, 1959, and shall come into operation on the 4th day of February, 1959.

(2) The Agriculture (Miscellaneous Time-Limits) Regulations, 1948, to the extent that those regulations are in force immediately before the coming into operation of these regulations, are hereby revoked.

(3) In these regulations the expression “the Act” means the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1948.

(4) The Interpretation Act, 1889, shall apply to the interpretation of these Regulations as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.

2.—(1) The time within which a landlord shall give notice in writing to the tenant, pursuant to paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of section 30 of the Act, that a contract has been made for the sale of the landlord's interest in land of which the tenant has been given notice to quit, shall be whichever is the shorter of the two following periods, namely, one month from the making of the said contract, or the period remaining before the expiration of the said notice to quit.

(2) The time within which a landlord may, pursuant to sub-section (1) of section 7 of the Act, require that there shall be determined by arbitration and paid by the tenant the amount of any compensation referred to in the said sub-section, shall be one month from the date on which there takes effect by virtue of section 5 or section 6 of the Act any transfer from the tenant to the landlord of liability for the maintenance or repair of any item of fixed equipment.

(3) The time within which a tenant may, pursuant to sub-section (2) of section 7 of the Act, require that any claim in respect of a previous failure by the landlord to discharge a liability for the maintenance or repair of any item of fixed equipment shall be determined by arbitration, shall be one month from the date on which there takes effect by virtue of section 5 or section 6 of the Act any transfer from the landlord to the tenant of the said liability for the maintenance or repair of any item of fixed equipment.

In witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed this twenty-ninth day of January, Nineteen hundred and fifty-nine.

L.S.

John Hare

Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These regulations are made in the exercise of various powers under the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1948, to prescribe the time within which certain actions are to be carried out. Previous similar regulations made under similar powers conferred by the Agriculture Act, 1947, were S.I. 1948/188. They were continued in force for the purposes of the 1948 Act by section 100 thereof, and their effect is reproduced in the present regulations, except to the extent that the 1948 regulations have been superseded by later provisions, or have become spent.