62Provisions as to Wales (including Monmouthshire)
(1)Where by or under any provision to which this section applies (including any enactment as applied by such a provision) anything is authorised or required to be done—
(a)by the Minister in relation to the council of a county or county borough in Wales, or
(b)by such a council in relation to the Minister,
whether (in either case) the council fall within that provision in their capacity as a smallholdings authority or otherwise, any reference in that provision to the Minister shall, for the purposes of the application of that provision in relation to that council, be construed as a reference to the Ministers.
(2)This section applies to the following provisions, that is to say—
(a)all the provisions of this Part of this Act except sections 37, 52(1), 54, 55, 56(2) and (4), 59(2) and 61 and Schedule 3 ;
(b)section 2(7) and the proviso to section 6(1) of the [1926 c. 52.] Small Holdings and Allotments Act 1926, as those provisions have effect (in relation to certain matters in existence before 1st October 1949) by virtue of paragraph (a) of the proviso to section 67(2) of the [1947 c. 48.] Agriculture Act 1947; and
(c)the provisions of the Small Holdings and Allotments Acts 1908 to 1926, as applied to cottage holdings by section 12 of the [1931 c. 41.] Agricultural Land (Utilisation) Act 1931, with the exception of section 2(2) of the Small Holdings and Allotments Act 1926 as so applied.
(3)In this section any reference to Wales includes Monmouthshire.