[F1Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1963
1963 CHAPTER 11cross-notes I1
An Act to make further provision as to grants and contributions for agricultural and certain horticultural purposes and otherwise to amend the law relating to agriculture, agricultural produce and agricultural land; to provide for the purchase by the Sugar Board of sugar from the Republic of Ireland; to make new provision as to the charging of certain fees; and for purposes connected with those matters.
[15th May 1963]
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8 Grants to bodies promoting co-operation in agriculture and horticulture.
The Minister may, in such manner and subject to such conditions as he may determine, make grants to bodies of persons in England and Wales whose object or main object is the organisation, promotion or development of co-operation in agriculture or horticulture (including any activities carried on in connection therewith) or of co-operation in the marketing of agricultural or horticultural produce.
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F812 Supplementary provisions as to schemes under two preceding sections.
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F1116 Fees
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20 Extension of time limits in arbitration proceedings relating to agricultural holdings.
The periods specified respectively by—
(a)[F15 paragraph (6) of Schedule 6 to the M1Agricultural Holdings Act 1948 andF15] paragraph 5 of Schedule 6 to the M2Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 1949;
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as the period within which the parties to an arbitration are to deliver statements of their cases F17... shall each be extended by fourteen days; F17...
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[F1922 Allowances to persons displaced from agricultural land.
(1)Where any interest in land is compulsorily acquired in pursuance of a notice to treat served after 31st October 1962 or is sold by agreement, in pursuance of a contract made after that date, to an authority possessing compulsory purchase powers, and
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(i)is used for the purposes of agriculture (within the meaning of the Agricultural Tenancies Act 1995) and is so used by way of a trade or business, or
(ii)is not so used but is comprised in a farm business tenancy (within the meaning of the Agricultural Tenancies Act 1995) and used for the purposes of a trade or business,F20]
(b)the person carrying on the trade or business is displaced from the land;
the acquiring authority may pay to him such reasonable allowance as they think fit towards his removal expenses and the loss which, in their opinion, he will sustain by reason of the resulting disturbance of his trade or business.
(2)In estimating that loss the authority shall have regard to the period for which the land might reasonably have been expected to be available for the purpose of the trade or business, and to the availability of other land suitable for that purpose.
(3)The preceding provisions of this section shall have effect without prejudice to the operation of any other enactment authorising the making of payments to persons displaced from any land.
(4)Section 39 of the M3Land Compensation Act 1961 (which makes provision as to the interpretation of that Act) shall apply in relation to the preceding provisions of this section as if they were contained in that Act.
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(6)In the application of this section to Northern Ireland—
(a) “ authority possessing compulsory purchase powers ” means, in relation to any interest, any person or body of persons who, by or under any enactment of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, have been authorised to acquire the interest compulsorily or could have been so authorised for the purposes for which it was acquired, but with respect to whom the Parliament of Northern Ireland has no power to make laws corresponding to this section;
(b) “ enactment ” in subsection (3) includes any enactment of the Parliament of Northern Ireland; and
(c)subject to the preceding provisions of this subsection, subsections (1) to (4) of this section shall be construed as they are construed in their application to England and Wales, notwithstanding that [F22 the Agricultural Tenancies Act 1995F22] ) and the Land Compensation Act 1961 do not extend to Northern Ireland.F19]
F2323 Cold and chemical storage of eggs.
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F2626 Provisions as to schemes, and meaning of “the appropriate Minister” in relation to schemes.
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27 Expenses.
There shall be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament—
(a)any grant, contribution, compensation or allowance payable by a Minister of the Crown by virtue of this Act . . .. . . F27;
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(c)any expenses of administration incurred by a Minister of the Crown by virtue of this Act; and
(d)any increase attributable to this Act in the sums payable out of moneys so provided under any other enactment.
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29 Short title, interpretation and extent.
(1)This Act may be cited as the Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1963.
(2) In this Act “ the Minister ” F30 ... means the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, F31 ... .
(3)Sections 8, F32 ... F33 ... and F32... of this Act do not extend to Scotland, ... F34...
(4)The following provisions of this Act do not extend to Northern Ireland, that is to say, F35... sections 8, F35... F33... F35... 20, 21 and 23.
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