F11 Repeal of powers of supervision, direction and dispossession under Part II of Agriculture Act, 1947, and Part II of Agriculture (Scotland) Act 1948.E+W+S
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Textual Amendments
F1S. 1 repealed (22.7.2004) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), Sch. 1 Pt. 2 Group 1
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Textual Amendments
F2S. 2 repealed (S.) by Agricultural Holdings (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 1983 (c. 46, SIF 2:3), s. 6, Sch. 2 and (E.W.) by Agricultural Holdings Act 1984 (c. 41), s. 10(2), Sch. 4
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Textual Amendments
F3S. 3 repealed by Agricultural Holdings (Notices to Quit) Act 1977 (c. 12, SIF 2:3), s. 13, Sch. 2 (subject to a saving in s. 14 in relation to notices to quit given before 7.4.1978) and expressed to be repealed (S.) (25.9.1991) by Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 1991 (c. 55, SIF 2:3), ss. 88, 89(2), Sch. 13 PartI (with s. 45(3), Sch. 12 paras. 1, 3)
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Textual Amendments
5 Transfer to Lord Chancellor of Minister’s functions as respects Agricultural Land Tribunals.E+W+S
The functions conferred on the Minister in relation to Agricultural Land Tribunals by section seventy-three of the Act of 1947 shall be exercisable [F5 as provided for in that section ], so however that the duty of providing the said Tribunals with the necessary officers and servants and of paying salaries, fees and allowances shall remain with the Minister.
Textual Amendments
F5Words in s. 5 substituted (3.4.2006) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), s. 148(1), Sch. 4 para. 49; S.I. 2006/1014, art. 2(a), Sch. 1 para. 11(e)
6 Provisions as to succession to holdings in Scotland.E+W+S
(1),(2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F6
(3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F7
(4),(5). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F8
Textual Amendments
F6S. 6(1)(2) repealed with savings by Succession (Scotland) Act 1964 (c. 41), s. 34(2), Sch. 3
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Textual Amendments
F9S. 7 repealed by Weeds Act 1959 (c. 54), Sch.
8 Minor and consequential amendments.E+W+S
(1)The enactments specified in Part I of the First Schedule to this Act (being enactments applying to England and Wales) F10... shall have effect subject to the amendments specified in that Schedule, being minor amendments or amendments consequential on the foregoing provisions of this Act.
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Textual Amendments
F10Words in s. 8(1) repealed (22.7.2004) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), Sch. 1 Pt. 2 Group 1
F11S. 8(2) repealed by House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 (c. 24, SIF 89), s. 10(2), Sch. 3
9 Interpretation.E+W+S
(1)In this Act the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them respectively, that is to say —
“Act of 1947” means the M1Agriculture Act, 1947;
“Act of 1948” means the M2Agricultural Holdings Act, 1948;
“agricultural holding”, . . . F12as respects Scotland has the meaning assigned to it by section one of the Scottish Act of 1949;
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“Land Court” means the Scottish Land Court;
“landlord” and “tenant”, . . . F12as respects Scotland have the meanings assigned to them by section ninety-three of the Scottish Act of 1949;
“lease”, as respects Scotland, means a letting of land for a term of years, or for lives, or for lives and years, or from year to year;
“the Minister” means the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food;
“Scottish Act of 1948” means the M3Agriculture (Scotland) Act, 1948;
“Scottish Act of 1949” means the M4Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act, 1949.
(2)References in this Act to any enactment shall be construed, except where the context otherwise requires, as references to that exactment as amended by or under any other enactment, including this Act.
Textual Amendments
F12Words repealed by Agricultural Holdings Act 1986 (c. 5, SIF 2:3), ss. 99, 101, Sch. 13 para. 3, Sch. 15 Pt. 1
F13Words in s. 9(1) repealed (22.7.2004) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), Sch. 1 Pt. 2 Group 1
Marginal Citations
10 Repeals savings and transitional provisions.E+W+S
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F15(2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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(4)The repeal by virtue of this Act of provisions contained in Part II of the Scottish Act of 1948 shall not affect the operation of section thirty-five of that Act (in relation to which certain of those provisions have effect for the purposes of special directions to secure production).
(5)The repeal by virtue of this Act of section seventy-one of the Scottish Act of 1948 shall not affect the operation of subsection (6) of section twenty-one of the M5Crofters (Scotland) Act, 1955 (which applies the provisions of the said section seventy-one to the reference to the Land Court of certain proposals of the Crofters Commission) or the power of the Secretary of State to make regulations under the said section as so applied.
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(7)The transitional provisions set out in the Fourth Schedule to this Act shall have effect.
Textual Amendments
F14S. 10(1) repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1973 (c. 39), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. VIII
F15S. 10(2) repealed (22.7.2004) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), Sch. 1 Pt. 2 Group 1
F16S. 10(3) repealed (with saving) by Mineral Workings Act 1985 (c. 12, SIF 86), ss. 4(1)(7), 10, Sch. 2
F17S. 10(6) repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1973 (c. 39), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. VIII
Marginal Citations
11 Short title and extent.E+W+S
(1)This Act may be cited as the Agriculture Act, 1958.
(2)This Act . . . F18 shall not extend to Northern Ireland.
Textual Amendments
F18Words repealed by House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 (c. 24, SIF 89), s. 10(2), Sch. 3