Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1972

[F118 Power to obtain agricultural statistics by means of notices.E+W+S

Section 78(1) of the M1Agriculture Act 1947 shall have effect with the following amendments (which replace provisions authorising the making, after consultation with the relevant advisory committee established in pursuance of section 77 of that Act, of regulations with respect to the service of notices requiring the furnishing of information relating to agriculture by provisions authorising the service of such notices) that is to say—

(a)for the words from “after consultation” to “of notices requiring them” there shall be substituted the words “serve on any owners or occupiers of land used for agriculture, or of land which the Minister has reason to believe may be so used, notices requiring them”; and

(b)for the word “prescribed” where it first occurs there shall be substituted the words “specified in the notice” and for the words “prescribed information” in both places where they occur there shall be substituted the words “information referred to in the notice”; and

(c)the words from “and regulations” to “be prescribed” shall be omitted;

and accordingly section 77 of that Act shall cease to have effect and the committees mentioned in that section are hereby abolished.]