Development of Rural Wales Act 1976
1976 CHAPTER 75 cross-notes I1
An Act to establish a Development Board for Rural Wales, to confer power on the Secretary of State to pay housing and rent rebate subsidies to the Board, to make provision in relation to certain other bodies concerned with the development of Wales, to confer power on the Secretary of State to give financial assistance to bodies concerned with the social development of Wales and for purposes connected with those purposes.
[22nd November 1976]
Development Board for Rural Wales
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Provisions about the Welsh Development Agency cross-notes
23 Amendments of Welsh Development Agency Act 1975. cross-notes
(1) M1 The Welsh Development Agency Act 1975 shall be amended as provided in this section.
(2) In section 2(1) (membership of the Agency), for the words “six nor more than eight" there shall be substituted the words “seven nor more than nine".
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Provision for staff at the Council for Small Industries in Rural Areas
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Financial assistance to social bodies in Wales
26 Financial assistance to bodies contributing to the social development of Wales. cross-notes
(1) F27 Subject to subsection (2) below, the Secretary of State may, with the approval of the Treasury, give financial assistance to any person . . . engaged in an activity in Wales which the Secretary of State considers will contribute to the social development of Wales or any part of Wales.
(2) The Secretary of State shall not give financial assistance under this section to a person who carries on or intends to carry on [F28 a business; and in this subsection “business" has the same meaning as in the Welsh Development Agency Act 1975 F28] .
(3) The financial assistance may be by way of grant, loan or the giving of guarantees or by any combination of those means.
(4) The conditions which may be attached to the giving of financial assistance under this section include conditions for repayment of the whole or any part of a grant in any circumstances.
(5) Any sums repaid to the Secretary of State in pursuance of this section shall be paid by him into the Consolidated Fund.
Supplemental
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35 Citation commencement and extent.
(1) This Act may be cited as the Development of Rural Wales Act 1976.
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(3) F38 . . .this Act does not extend to Northern Ireland.
F39 SCHEDULES
Section 1(7).
SCHEDULE 1 The Development Board for Rural Wales
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Section 3(4).
SCHEDULE 2 Members of Staff of Dissolved Development Corporations
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Section 5(1).
SCHEDULE 3 The New Towns Code
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Section 6(7).
SCHEDULE 4 Adaptation of Enactments in Connection with Compulsory Acquisition of Rights
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SCHEDULE 5 HOUSING
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SCHEDULE 6 Staff of Council for Small Industries in Rural Areas
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Section 27.
SCHEDULE 7 Amendments of Acts
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