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Agriculture Act 1947

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53Duty of smallholdings authority to manage in accordance with rules of good estate management.

(1)Where it appears to the Minister that a smallholdings authority have in any respect failed to fulfil their responsibilities to manage in accordance with the rules of good estate management land held by them for the purposes of smallholdings, the Minister may direct that the authority shall within such time as may be specified in the direction carry out such work on the land as may be so specified, being work which in the opinion of the Minister is necessary to remedy the non-fulfilment of their said responsibilities.

(2)If a smallholdings authority fail to comply with a direction under this section, any person authorised by the Minister in that behalf may enter on the land in question and carry out the work, and the reasonable cost of the carrying out thereof shall be recoverable by the Minister from the smallholdings authority.

(3)Any dispute arising under the last foregoing subsection as to what is the reasonable cost of any work shall be determined by the arbitration of an arbitrator appointed in default of agreement by the President of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

(4)The provisions of Part II of this Act as to supervision orders and directions to secure good estate management shall not apply to the management by smallholdings authorities of land held by them for the purposes of smallholdings.

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