Statutory Instruments
AGRICULTURE
Made
21st February 1978
Laid before Parliament
2nd March 1978
Coming into Operation
1st April 1978
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers vested in them by section 7(1) and (2)(a) of the Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976 and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, and after consultation with such organisations as appear to them appropriate as representing any interests concerned, hereby make the following regulations:—
1.—(1) These regulations may be cited as the Agriculture Act 1967 (Amendment) Regulations 1978 and shall come into operation on the 1st April 1978.
(2) The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply for the interpretation of these regulations as it applies for the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
2. The Agriculture Act 1967 shall be amended as follows:—
(1) in subsection (7)(a) of section 51 (schemes for co-ordinated amalgamations and reshaping of agricultural units in area of a Rural Development Board), for the word “acreage” in each place where the same occurs there shall be substituted the word “area”;
(2) in subsection (2)(d) of section 52 (control of afforestation in area of a Rural Development Board), for the words “ten acres” in each place where the same occur there shall be substituted the words “four hectares”.
In Witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 17th February 1978.
L.S.
John Silkin
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Bruce Millan
Secretary of State for Scotland
20th February 1978
John Morris
Secretary of State for Wales
21st February 1978
These Regulations, which come into force on 1st April 1978, amend section 51(7)(a) of the Agriculture Act 1967 by substituting for the word “acreage” therein the word “area”, and amend section 52(2)(d) of the Agriculture Act 1967 by substituting for references therein to areas expressed in imperial units references to areas expressed in metric units.
The effect is to substitute four hectares (9.88 acres) for ten acres being the upper limit of an area of land which may be afforested in the area of a Rural Development Board without a licence from them.