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MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE (IN THIS ACT REFERRED TO AS ""THE
MINISTER'') SHALL ESTABLISH A GENERAL AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
TO ADVISE HIM ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THIS ACT, TOGETHER WITH SUCH
OTHER AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEES AS THE MINISTER MAY FROM TIME
TO TIME THINK NECESSARY TO ADVISE HIM ON SUCH OTHER MATTERS,
INCLUDING AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF LIVESTOCK, AS
HE MAY THINK PROPER. B>(2) THE MINISTER SHALL CONSULT SUCH
ORGANISATION AS APPEARS TO HIM TO REPRESENT THE INTERESTS OF FARMERS
BEFORE APPOINTING THE GENERAL AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
AFORESAID, AND SHALL APPOINT AS MEMBERS OF OTHER AGRICULTURAL
ADVISORY COMMITTEES SUCH PERSONS AS APPEAR TO HIM, AFTER CONSULTATION
WITH SUCH ORGANISATION AND WITH THE INTERESTS CONCERNED, TO BE BEST
QUALIFIED TO ADVISE ON THE MATTERS TO BE REFERRED TO THE
COMMITTEES. 6 EDUCATION AND RESEARCH

THE MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE (IN THIS ACT REFERRED TO AS ""THE
MINISTER'') SHALL ESTABLISH A GENERAL AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
TO ADVISE HIM ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THIS ACT, TOGETHER WITH SUCH
OTHER AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEES AS THE MINISTER MAY FROM TIME
TO TIME THINK NECESSARY TO ADVISE HIM ON SUCH OTHER MATTERS,
INCLUDING AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF LIVESTOCK, AS
HE MAY THINK PROPER. B>(2) THE MINISTER SHALL CONSULT SUCH
ORGANISATION AS APPEARS TO HIM TO REPRESENT THE INTERESTS OF FARMERS
BEFORE APPOINTING THE GENERAL AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
AFORESAID, AND SHALL APPOINT AS MEMBERS OF OTHER AGRICULTURAL
ADVISORY COMMITTEES SUCH PERSONS AS APPEAR TO HIM, AFTER CONSULTATION
WITH SUCH ORGANISATION AND WITH THE INTERESTS CONCERNED, TO BE BEST
QUALIFIED TO ADVISE ON THE MATTERS TO BE REFERRED TO THE
COMMITTEES. 6 EDUCATION AND RESEARCH - LONG TITLE

rovision for education and instruction, scholarships and undertaking
of research. A> 5. {1} (1) The Ministry may provide, maintain and
equip schools, colleges and other institutions together with land and
buildings ancillary thereto for the purposes of instructing persons
in agriculture, horticulture and kindred subjects, including forestry,
market gardening, dairy or fruit farming, apiculture, the management
of farms and farm households, the use of farm machinery and
equipment, farm accounts, records and statistics, the raising,
safeguarding or marketing of livestock, poultry or other farm produce
whatsoever or in agricultural botany, biology, zoology, chemistry,
biochemistry, genetics, mechanics, economics and such other subjects
as appear to the Ministry to conduce to a knowledge of the science
and practice of agriculture or horticulture. B>(2) The Ministry,
after considering any recommendations made by any county committee of
agriculture{2}, may either itself provide or arrange for the
provision by other persons of lectures and classes (including
displays of instructional apparatus and educational exhibits and
experimental and demonstration plots) in any of the subjects referred
to in the preceding sub-section. B>[{3}(2A) Without prejudice to
sub-sections (1) and (2), the Ministry may, with the approval of
the Ministry of Finance, either itself provide or arrange for the
provision by other persons of courses of instruction and training
and other facilities (which may include residential accommodation) for
persons engaged or employed, or proposing to become engaged or
employed, in activities in agriculture. B>(2B) The Ministry may, with
the approval of the Ministry of Finance, make schemes subject to
negative resolution providing for the payment by the Ministry of
sums by way of grant to or in respect of persons who participate
in any course provided under sub-section (2A) or who provide such a
course or other facilities.] B>(3) The Ministry may, with the
approval of the Ministry of Finance, make schemes providing for the
payment by the Ministry of sums by way of scholarships for the
purposes of enabling or assisting persons to secure instruction
(whether at a school, college or other institution provided or
maintained by the Ministry or at any university or other institution
or selected farm or other establishment in Northern Ireland or
elsewhere) or to undertake research in any subject or course of
subjects specified in such schemes. B>(4){4} The Ministry may either
itself undertake research in any branch of agricultural, horticultural
or veterinary science including research in any of the subjects
referred to in sub-section (1) of this section and research for the
purposes of founding any new or improved species of plant or animal
life or of combating any pest, vermin or disease affecting
livestock, poultry or crops or may make advances, by way of grant
or by way of loan or partly by way of grant and partly by way
of loan, upon such terms and subject to such conditions as the
Ministry, with the approval of the Ministry of Finance, thinks fit,
to any person or body for the purposes of any such research. 6
Agricultural Development >Grants for the improvement of land, etc. A>
6. (1) The Ministry may, with the approval of the Ministry of
Finance, make schemes providing for the payment, on such terms and
subject to such conditions as are mentioned in the respective
schemes, of grants to occupiers of agricultural land for all or any
of the following purposes: N>>( a ){5} the improvement or
reclamation of land used or to be used for agricultural purposes
including the drainage of such land; C >>( b ) the supply of
water to agricultural land and agricultural buildings not being
dwelling-houses and, where water of suitable purity for domestic use
is available, to dwelling-houses occupied as farmhouses or by
agricultural workers; C >>( c ) the purchase and installation of
machines for the generation of electricity for use in agricultural
buildings and dwelling-houses on farms to which a supply of
electricity is not, in the opinion of the Ministry, likely to be
made available from a distributing main; C >>( d ) the provision
of proper means of access or egress to and from agricultural land,
agricultural buildings or turf bogs; C >>( e ) the construction or
reconditioning of flax dams; or C >>( f ) any other purpose
(including the provision of agricultural buildings not being
dwelling-houses) which the Ministry is satisfied will increase the
fertility of any agricultural land or the productive capacity of any
farm or is necessary for the more efficient working of any farm.
B>(2){6} Any scheme made under this section, and any subsequent
scheme amending a scheme so made, shall be laid before each House
of Parliament, and if either House of Parliament within the next
statutory period on which it has sat after the scheme is laid
before it, resolves that the scheme shall be annulled, the scheme
shall thereupon cease to have effect, but without prejudice to
anything done thereunder or to the making of a new scheme.
>Provision of goods and services. A> 7. (1) For the purpose of
promoting efficiency in agriculture or of facilitating the production
of food the Ministry may, with the approval of the Ministry of
Finance, make goods and services (including advisory services)
available to persons farming agricultural land or marketing or
distributing agricultural produce and may with the like approval make
advisory services available to other persons: B>Provided that in
making goods available under this section the Ministry shall as far
as practicable use such normal trade facilities as appear to it to
be appropriate. <1966 c.42
[{9}(4) The Department may, and shall be deemed always to have had
power to, impose such charges as it may, with the consent of the
Department of Finance, determine in respect of applications made to
it for assistance and of services rendered by it under this
section.] N>> S.10 rep. by 1958 c.13 (NI) s.54 sch.5 >Propagation
of new kinds of plants and crops. A> 11. (1) The Ministry may
either itself propagate or arrange for the propagation by other
persons of new species or varieties of any plant or crop. B>(2) An
arrangement made by the Ministry with any person for the propagation
by that person of any species or variety of plant or crop may
provide for the payment by the Ministry, on such terms and subject
to such conditions as the Ministry, with the approval of the
Ministry of Finance, may think fit, of the expenses incurred by
that person in connection with the arrangement. >Miscellaneous grants
for agricultural purposes. A> 12. The Ministry may, with the
approval of the Ministry of Finance, make grants on such terms and
subject to such conditions and for such purposes as the Ministry
thinks proper C >>( a ) to any society established for the purpose
of holding agricultural, horticultural, poultry, farm produce and
industrial shows, displays or exhibitions, and such other shows,
displays, exhibitions and competitions as the Ministry may from time
to time determine; and C >>( b ) to any association, institution
or club, not being an association, institution or club operated for
profit, which has amongst its objects the development of agriculture,
horticulture or apiculture or of any branch thereof or the welfare
or training of farmers or agricultural workers or of women whose
work is associated with farming activities. >General provisions as to
exercise of powers under this Part of this Act. A> 13. {10} (1)
The powers exercisable by the Ministry under or by virtue of any
provision contained in this Part of this Act may be exercised in
addition to any other power conferred on the Ministry under or by
virtue of any other enactment. B>(2) Except in so far as this Part
of this Act otherwise provides, any power conferred thereby may be
exercised C >>( a ) either in relation to all cases to which the
power extends, or in relation to all those cases subject to
specified exceptions, or in relation to any specified cases or
classes of case; and C >>( b ) so as to make, as respects the
cases in relation to which it is exercised E >> >(i) the full
provision to which the power extends or any less provision (whether
by way of exception or otherwise); E >>> (ii) the same provision
for all cases in relation to which the power is exercised or
different provision for different cases or classes of case, or
different provision as respects the same case or class of case for
different purposes of this Act; E > < >(iii) any such provision either
unconditionally or subject to any specified condition. B>(3) Without
prejudice to any specific provision in this Part of this Act, any
scheme or arrangement made under this Part of this Act may contain
such incidental or supplemental provisions as appear to the Ministry
to be expedient for the purposes thereof. B>(4) Any scheme or
arrangement made by the Ministry under and in accordance with any
provision contained in this Part of this Act may be varied,
modified or revoked by a subsequent scheme or arrangement (as the
case may be) made in like manner. 4P ART II{11} ]

(3) The Ministry shall, on the request of any person who

(a)claims by virtue of any conacre, agistment or other agreement any
right to use any agricultural land as such; or

(b)satisfies the Ministry that he is the owner of any agricultural
land or of any estate or interest therein or that an estate or
interest therein may vest in him on or at any time subsequent to
the determination of the estate or interest of the occupier therein,

(4) If while an improvement notice is in force in relation to any
agricultural land additional land becomes occupied by the same
occupier and is farmed in conjunction therewith the notice shall, if
the Ministry so determines, extend by virtue of such determination
to the additional land and shall be registered accordingly [by the
Ministry pursuant to the provisions of Part X of the Land
Registration Act (Northern Ireland) 1970]:

Provided that nothing in this or the next succeeding sub-section
shall be construed as imposing on any occupier any liability with
respect to the additional land on a date before the commencement of
his occupation thereof.

(5) For the purposes of giving effect to the last preceding
sub-section references in this Act to the land to which an
improvement notice relates shall be construed as including references
to any additional land to which the notice extends by virtue of a
determination of the Ministry under that sub-section; and references
in this Act to the service of an improvement notice shall be
construed as references to the date on which the notice was
originally served as well in relation to such additional land as in
relation to any other land to which the notice relates.

THE MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE (IN THIS ACT REFERRED TO AS ""THE
MINISTER'') SHALL ESTABLISH A GENERAL AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
TO ADVISE HIM ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THIS ACT, TOGETHER WITH SUCH
OTHER AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEES AS THE MINISTER MAY FROM TIME
TO TIME THINK NECESSARY TO ADVISE HIM ON SUCH OTHER MATTERS,
INCLUDING AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF LIVESTOCK, AS
HE MAY THINK PROPER. B>(2) THE MINISTER SHALL CONSULT SUCH
ORGANISATION AS APPEARS TO HIM TO REPRESENT THE INTERESTS OF FARMERS
BEFORE APPOINTING THE GENERAL AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
AFORESAID, AND SHALL APPOINT AS MEMBERS OF OTHER AGRICULTURAL
ADVISORY COMMITTEES SUCH PERSONS AS APPEAR TO HIM, AFTER CONSULTATION
WITH SUCH ORGANISATION AND WITH THE INTERESTS CONCERNED, TO BE BEST
QUALIFIED TO ADVISE ON THE MATTERS TO BE REFERRED TO THE
COMMITTEES. 6 EDUCATION AND RESEARCH - SECT 17
Appeal against an improvement notice.

17.(1) Within one month from the service of an improvement notice,
the person served with such notice and any person entitled to make
representations against the service thereof may in accordance with
such county court rules as may be made in that behalf appeal to
the county court having jurisdiction for the area in which the land
to which the notice relates is situate and that court, whose
decision shall be final, shall have power to confirm, modify or
cancel the notice.

(2) For the purpose of hearing appeals under this section the
county court judge shall be assisted by two assessors, one of whom
shall be appointed by the Ministry and the other shall be appointed
by such organisation as appears to the Ministry to represent the
interests of the farmers in the area in which the land is situate:

Provided that where such organisation neglects or fails to appoint
such other assessor within a period of ten days after being asked
by the Ministry to do so, the Ministry may itself appoint such
other assessor.

(3) Where land lies partly in the area of one civil bill division
and partly in the area of another, the Ministry may direct that
for the purposes of any appeal under this section the whole of the
land shall be deemed to be in such of those divisions as may be
specified in the direction.

THE MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE (IN THIS ACT REFERRED TO AS ""THE
MINISTER'') SHALL ESTABLISH A GENERAL AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
TO ADVISE HIM ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THIS ACT, TOGETHER WITH SUCH
OTHER AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEES AS THE MINISTER MAY FROM TIME
TO TIME THINK NECESSARY TO ADVISE HIM ON SUCH OTHER MATTERS,
INCLUDING AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF LIVESTOCK, AS
HE MAY THINK PROPER. B>(2) THE MINISTER SHALL CONSULT SUCH
ORGANISATION AS APPEARS TO HIM TO REPRESENT THE INTERESTS OF FARMERS
BEFORE APPOINTING THE GENERAL AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
AFORESAID, AND SHALL APPOINT AS MEMBERS OF OTHER AGRICULTURAL
ADVISORY COMMITTEES SUCH PERSONS AS APPEAR TO HIM, AFTER CONSULTATION
WITH SUCH ORGANISATION AND WITH THE INTERESTS CONCERNED, TO BE BEST
QUALIFIED TO ADVISE ON THE MATTERS TO BE REFERRED TO THE
COMMITTEES. 6 EDUCATION AND RESEARCH - SECT 18
Duration of improvement notices.

18.(1) Where an improvement notice is in force and the Ministry is
satisfied that it is no longer necessary that such improvement
notice should continue in force, the Ministry may cancel the notice
either in whole or in part, but the cancellation of the notice or
part thereof shall not affect any direction made thereunder in so
far as such direction is in force immediately before such
cancellation.

(2)... any transfer of any interest in land to which an improvement
notice relates other than a transfer by a testamentary disposition
or by operation of law, whereby some other person becomes the
occupier of that land, shall not affect the continued operation of
the notice in relation to that land and accordingly the notice
shall, subject to the provisions of this section, continue in force
in so far as it relates to that land.

(3) So long as an improvement notice continues in force the
Ministry shall, from time to time, review the condition of the land
to which the notice relates, and

(a)a review shall be held under this sub-section as soon as may be
after the expiration of twelve months from the service of the
notice and, where one or more than one review of the notice has
already been held under this sub-section, a further review shall be
held as soon as may be after the expiration of twelve months from
the last such review;

(b)the Ministry shall, on any review held under this sub-section,
afford to any person, who, if an improvement notice were being
served immediately before that review, would be entitled to make
representations against the service thereof, a like opportunity of
making representations for the cancellation or modification of the
improvement notice under review.

(4) Subject to the foregoing provisions of this section an
improvement notice shall, to the extent to which it has not been
cancelled by the Ministry or by a county court pursuant to the
provisions of this Part of this Act, remain in force for the
period of five years occurring next after the service thereof, so
however that, without prejudice to the provisions of sub-section (1)
of section thirty-two of the Interpretation Act, 1889, as applied to
Acts of the Parliament of Northern Ireland by the Interpretation
Act, 1921, the Ministry, notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of
this sub-section, may, where it is satisfied that the land to which
the improvement notice relates should after the expiration of such
period continue to be, or should at any subsequent time be, treated
as unsatisfactorily farmed, serve, at any time during the two months
immediately preceding such expiration or at any subsequent time, a
further improvement notice or notices relating to the land or any
part thereof. For the removal of doubt it is hereby declared that
the provisions of this Part of this Act relating to the service,
duration and effect of improvement notices and to appeals against
such notices shall apply with respect to every further improvement
notice served by the Ministry in accordance with this sub-section.

(5) The provisions of this Part of this Act relating to the
duration of improvement notices and to the operation of directions
given thereunder shall have effect notwithstanding anything contained
in section fifty-five of the Irish Land Act, 1903, regarding the
compulsory sale of certain holdings by the Ministry of Finance.

Directions to secure good husbandry.

THE MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE (IN THIS ACT REFERRED TO AS ""THE
MINISTER'') SHALL ESTABLISH A GENERAL AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
TO ADVISE HIM ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THIS ACT, TOGETHER WITH SUCH
OTHER AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEES AS THE MINISTER MAY FROM TIME
TO TIME THINK NECESSARY TO ADVISE HIM ON SUCH OTHER MATTERS,
INCLUDING AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF LIVESTOCK, AS
HE MAY THINK PROPER. B>(2) THE MINISTER SHALL CONSULT SUCH
ORGANISATION AS APPEARS TO HIM TO REPRESENT THE INTERESTS OF FARMERS
BEFORE APPOINTING THE GENERAL AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
AFORESAID, AND SHALL APPOINT AS MEMBERS OF OTHER AGRICULTURAL
ADVISORY COMMITTEES SUCH PERSONS AS APPEAR TO HIM, AFTER CONSULTATION
WITH SUCH ORGANISATION AND WITH THE INTERESTS CONCERNED, TO BE BEST
QUALIFIED TO ADVISE ON THE MATTERS TO BE REFERRED TO THE
COMMITTEES. 6 EDUCATION AND RESEARCH - SECT 19

19.(1) After one month from the service of an improvement notice
or, if an appeal has been made to the county court on or after
the confirmation or modification of such notice, the Ministry may,
from time to time, while such notice continues in force, give to
the person appearing to the Ministry to be the occupier of the
land to which the notice relates such written directions as the
Ministry may consider necessary to secure that the land to which
the improvement notice relates is maintained in good condition and
farmed in accordance with the rules of good husbandry.

(2) The Ministry shall consider any representations made within
reasonable time after the giving of any direction in accordance with
the provisions of the preceding sub-section and may confirm, modify
or cancel such direction.

(3) Without prejudice to the generality of the provisions of
sub-section (1) of this section, a direction under this section may
impose requirements, restrictions or prohibitions as to the carrying
out of work and may specify the purpose for which and the manner
in which the land or any part thereof is to be farmed.

(4) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provisions
of this section, directions given by the Ministry in accordance with
the provisions of sub-section (1) of this section may relate to

(a)the manuring, cultivating, cropping, mowing and grazing of
agricultural land, including the cutting or removal of weeds, whins,
bracken and scrub;

(b)the protection of crops and livestock from disease and from
infestation by pests;

(c)the harvesting of crops and the protection and preservation of
crops harvested or lifted or in the course of being harvested or
lifted;

(d)methods of handling and treatment of produce intended for sale
off the land;

(e)the drainage and fencing of the land;

(f)the necessary work of repair and maintenance on the farm.

(5) A direction given under this Part of this Act shall not
operate to impose on an occupier of land any obligation to
discharge any liability of the Ministry arising under or by virtue
of any provision contained in the Drainage Act (Northern Ireland),
1947.

(6) Where the Ministry gives to a person a direction under this
Act requiring the ploughing-up of any land consisting of permanent
pasture, compliance with the direction shall, notwithstanding the
provisions of any lease or agreement affecting the land or any
custom, not render the said person liable thereby to sow it again
at his own expense, or to pay any sum by way of increased rent,
damages or penalty, or to suffer any forfeiture by reason of the
ploughing-up or of the failure to sow it again; and for the
purposes of any provision of any such lease or agreement as
aforesaid or any custom, the land shall thereafter be deemed to be
arable land and to have been arable land at all material times.

THE MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE (IN THIS ACT REFERRED TO AS ""THE
MINISTER'') SHALL ESTABLISH A GENERAL AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
TO ADVISE HIM ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THIS ACT, TOGETHER WITH SUCH
OTHER AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEES AS THE MINISTER MAY FROM TIME
TO TIME THINK NECESSARY TO ADVISE HIM ON SUCH OTHER MATTERS,
INCLUDING AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF LIVESTOCK, AS
HE MAY THINK PROPER. B>(2) THE MINISTER SHALL CONSULT SUCH
ORGANISATION AS APPEARS TO HIM TO REPRESENT THE INTERESTS OF FARMERS
BEFORE APPOINTING THE GENERAL AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
AFORESAID, AND SHALL APPOINT AS MEMBERS OF OTHER AGRICULTURAL
ADVISORY COMMITTEES SUCH PERSONS AS APPEAR TO HIM, AFTER CONSULTATION
WITH SUCH ORGANISATION AND WITH THE INTERESTS CONCERNED, TO BE BEST
QUALIFIED TO ADVISE ON THE MATTERS TO BE REFERRED TO THE
COMMITTEES. 6 EDUCATION AND RESEARCH - SECT 20
Non-compliance with directions.

20.(1) If any person to whom a direction is given under the last
preceding section or on whom a direction given under that section
is served under sub-section (1) of section twenty-two of this Act,
refuses or neglects to comply with or acts in contravention of the
direction, he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not
exceeding one hundred pounds.

(2) Without prejudice to the bringing of proceedings under the
preceding sub-section, where a direction to carry out any work is
given under the last preceding section or is served under
sub-section (1) of section twenty-two of this Act and such direction
is not complied with, any person authorised by the Ministry in that
behalf may enter upon the land to which the direction relates and
carry out the work required by the direction, and the reasonable
and proper cost of carrying out the work in the exercise of powers
conferred by this sub-section shall be recoverable by the Ministry
as a civil debt from the person to whom the direction is so given
or served, as the case may be.

(3) Any sum so recoverable by the Ministry may be deducted by it
from any moneys payable by the Ministry to, or received by the
Ministry for payment to, the person to whom the direction is given
or on whom the direction is served, as the case may be.

(4) Any person who obstructs a person acting in the exercise of
powers conferred by sub-section (2) of this section shall be liable
on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds or
to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both
such fine and such imprisonment.

(5) Where a direction provides for the doing of anything within a
specified time and (whether before or after the expiration of the
said time) the Ministry is satisfied that it is reasonable that the
said time should be extended, it may be extended accordingly.

Emergency directions to secure production.

THE MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE (IN THIS ACT REFERRED TO AS ""THE
MINISTER'') SHALL ESTABLISH A GENERAL AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
TO ADVISE HIM ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THIS ACT, TOGETHER WITH SUCH
OTHER AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEES AS THE MINISTER MAY FROM TIME
TO TIME THINK NECESSARY TO ADVISE HIM ON SUCH OTHER MATTERS,
INCLUDING AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF LIVESTOCK, AS
HE MAY THINK PROPER. B>(2) THE MINISTER SHALL CONSULT SUCH
ORGANISATION AS APPEARS TO HIM TO REPRESENT THE INTERESTS OF FARMERS
BEFORE APPOINTING THE GENERAL AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
AFORESAID, AND SHALL APPOINT AS MEMBERS OF OTHER AGRICULTURAL
ADVISORY COMMITTEES SUCH PERSONS AS APPEAR TO HIM, AFTER CONSULTATION
WITH SUCH ORGANISATION AND WITH THE INTERESTS CONCERNED, TO BE BEST
QUALIFIED TO ADVISE ON THE MATTERS TO BE REFERRED TO THE
COMMITTEES. 6 EDUCATION AND RESEARCH - SECT 21

21.(1) Where it appears to the Ministry necessary in order to
safeguard in the public interest the supply of food or other
agricultural products, the Ministry may by regulation prescribe that
all or any of the powers conferred on it by the next succeeding
sub-section shall be exercisable by it for a period of one year
from the making of the regulation....

(2) During the period for which the said powers are exercisable the
Ministry may give such directions

(a)as to the use of agricultural land for any of the purposes of
agriculture and the manner in which and the produce for which it
is to be so used;

(b)as to the carrying out of any work necessary to enable
agricultural land to be used as directed under paragraph (a) of
this sub-section;

(c)as to any other matters as to which directions may be given to
an occupier of agricultural land to which an improvement notice
relates;

(d)without prejudice to the general powers conferred by the preceding
paragraphs, as to the cultivation of agricultural land including
directions requiring a minimum proportion of agricultural land to be
cultivated and maintained in cultivation;

(i)by order relating to all agricultural land or to land of any
class or description specified in the order; or

(ii)by notice relating to the land specified therein served on the
person who is to comply with the directions.

(3) If any person refuses or neglects to comply with or acts in
contravention of any direction given to him by virtue of this
section or served on him under sub-section (2) of the next
succeeding section, he shall be liable on summary conviction to a
fine not exceeding one hundred pounds or to imprisonment for a term
not exceeding six months or to both such fine and such
imprisonment.

(4) Sub-sections (2) to (5) of section twenty of this Act shall
apply in relation to directions given by virtue of this section or
served under sub-section (2) of the next succeeding section as they
apply in relation to directions given under section nineteen of this
Act.

(5) The provisions of sub-section (6) of section nineteen of this
Act shall have effect where a direction is given under this section
requiring the ploughing-up of permanent pasture or the performing of
other acts of cultivation.

(6) Nothing done or omitted by an occupier in pursuance of a
direction under this section shall be treated as a failure to
maintain land in good condition or to farm it in accordance with
the rules of good husbandry, so long as the act or omission was
reasonably necessary in consequence of the giving of the direction.

(7) Any period for which the powers conferred on the Ministry by
sub-section (2) of this section are exercisable shall be extended by
a further year if the Ministry by regulation made not earlier than
one month before the date on which the said period would otherwise
expire prescribes that the said period shall be so extended.

(8) The expiration of the said period shall not affect the
operation of any direction or order previously given or made (as
the case may be) under this section.

(9) Regulations made under this section shall not come into
operation unless and until a draft thereof has been laid before
each House of Parliament and confirmed by a resolution of each such
House.

Provisions in respect of conacre and agistment.

THE MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE (IN THIS ACT REFERRED TO AS ""THE
MINISTER'') SHALL ESTABLISH A GENERAL AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
TO ADVISE HIM ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THIS ACT, TOGETHER WITH SUCH
OTHER AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEES AS THE MINISTER MAY FROM TIME
TO TIME THINK NECESSARY TO ADVISE HIM ON SUCH OTHER MATTERS,
INCLUDING AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF LIVESTOCK, AS
HE MAY THINK PROPER. B>(2) THE MINISTER SHALL CONSULT SUCH
ORGANISATION AS APPEARS TO HIM TO REPRESENT THE INTERESTS OF FARMERS
BEFORE APPOINTING THE GENERAL AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
AFORESAID, AND SHALL APPOINT AS MEMBERS OF OTHER AGRICULTURAL
ADVISORY COMMITTEES SUCH PERSONS AS APPEAR TO HIM, AFTER CONSULTATION
WITH SUCH ORGANISATION AND WITH THE INTERESTS CONCERNED, TO BE BEST
QUALIFIED TO ADVISE ON THE MATTERS TO BE REFERRED TO THE
COMMITTEES. 6 EDUCATION AND RESEARCH - SECT 22

22.(1) Where under or by virtue of any provision contained in
section nineteen of this Act the Ministry has given to an occupier
of agricultural land a direction relating to any of the matters
specified in paragraphs (b), (c) or (d) of sub-section (4) of
section nineteen of this Act and that occupier satisfies the
Ministry that any other person had, before such direction was given,
acquired by virtue of any conacre or agistment agreement any right
to crop or till the land or to graze or pasture livestock thereon,
the Ministry shall serve the like direction on that other person
and it shall, notwithstanding anything in that conacre or agistment
agreement, be the duty of that other person to comply with the
direction so far as it relates to the land over which he has
acquired such right and if he refuses or neglects to do so or
acts in contravention of the direction he shall, in lieu of the
occupier, be liable on summary conviction under sub-section (1) of
section twenty of this Act to a fine not exceeding one hundred
pounds and the occupier shall cease to be liable in respect of so
much of the direction as relates to such last-mentioned land.

(2) Where under or by virtue of any provision contained in section
twenty-one of this Act or in any order made under that section the
Ministry has given to an occupier of agricultural land a direction
relating to any of the matters specified in paragraphs (b), (c) or
(d) of sub-section (4) of section nineteen of this Act and that
occupier satisfies the Ministry that any other person had, before
such direction was given, acquired by virtue of any conacre or
agistment agreement any right to crop or till the land or to graze
or pasture livestock thereon, the Ministry shall serve the like
direction on that other person and it shall, notwithstanding anything
in that conacre or agistment agreement, be the duty of that other
person to comply with the direction so far as it relates to the
land over which he has acquired such right and if he refuses or
neglects to do so or acts in contravention of the direction he
shall, in lieu of the occupier, be liable on summary conviction
under sub-section (3) of section twenty-one of this Act to a fine
not exceeding one hundred pounds or to imprisonment for a term not
exceeding six months or to both such fine and such imprisonment and
the occupier shall cease to be liable in respect of so much of
the direction as relates to such last-mentioned land.

(3) Save as provided by the last two preceding sub-sections an
occupier of any agricultural land shall be treated as such for the
purposes of this Part of this Act notwithstanding that any right to
crop or till that land or to graze or pasture livestock thereon is
exercisable by any other person under or by virtue of any conacre
or agistment agreement.

(4) If the owner or occupier of any agricultural land enters into
any conacre or agistment agreement authorising some other person to
use that land for a purpose which is prohibited by or is
inconsistent with any direction given under this Part of this Act
prior to the making of that agreement, he shall, without prejudice
to any civil liability in respect thereof, be liable on summary
conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.

THE MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE (IN THIS ACT REFERRED TO AS ""THE
MINISTER'') SHALL ESTABLISH A GENERAL AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
TO ADVISE HIM ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THIS ACT, TOGETHER WITH SUCH
OTHER AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEES AS THE MINISTER MAY FROM TIME
TO TIME THINK NECESSARY TO ADVISE HIM ON SUCH OTHER MATTERS,
INCLUDING AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF LIVESTOCK, AS
HE MAY THINK PROPER. B>(2) THE MINISTER SHALL CONSULT SUCH
ORGANISATION AS APPEARS TO HIM TO REPRESENT THE INTERESTS OF FARMERS
BEFORE APPOINTING THE GENERAL AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
AFORESAID, AND SHALL APPOINT AS MEMBERS OF OTHER AGRICULTURAL
ADVISORY COMMITTEES SUCH PERSONS AS APPEAR TO HIM, AFTER CONSULTATION
WITH SUCH ORGANISATION AND WITH THE INTERESTS CONCERNED, TO BE BEST
QUALIFIED TO ADVISE ON THE MATTERS TO BE REFERRED TO THE
COMMITTEES. 6 EDUCATION AND RESEARCH - SECT 23
Service of notices on agents.

23. Without prejudice to the general provisions of Part V of this
Act as to the service of notices, any notice, direction or copy
thereof required or authorised by this Part of this Act to be
given to or served on any person shall, where an agent or servant
of that person is responsible for the direction of agricultural work
on the land in question, be duly given or served if given to or
served on that agent or servant.

S.24 rep. by 1951 c.3 (NI) s.11(2) sch.2

THE MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE (IN THIS ACT REFERRED TO AS ""THE
MINISTER'') SHALL ESTABLISH A GENERAL AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
TO ADVISE HIM ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THIS ACT, TOGETHER WITH SUCH
OTHER AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEES AS THE MINISTER MAY FROM TIME
TO TIME THINK NECESSARY TO ADVISE HIM ON SUCH OTHER MATTERS,
INCLUDING AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF LIVESTOCK, AS
HE MAY THINK PROPER. B>(2) THE MINISTER SHALL CONSULT SUCH
ORGANISATION AS APPEARS TO HIM TO REPRESENT THE INTERESTS OF FARMERS
BEFORE APPOINTING THE GENERAL AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
AFORESAID, AND SHALL APPOINT AS MEMBERS OF OTHER AGRICULTURAL
ADVISORY COMMITTEES SUCH PERSONS AS APPEAR TO HIM, AFTER CONSULTATION
WITH SUCH ORGANISATION AND WITH THE INTERESTS CONCERNED, TO BE BEST
QUALIFIED TO ADVISE ON THE MATTERS TO BE REFERRED TO THE
COMMITTEES. 6 EDUCATION AND RESEARCH - SECT 25
Interpretation of references in Part II to ""occupier''.

25.(1) Without prejudice to the provisions of section twenty-two of
this Act, where, in relation to all or any of the provisions of
this Part of this Act

(a)all persons appearing to the Ministry to be concerned agree, with
the approval of the Ministry, that some person shall be treated as
the occupier of the land other than the person who but for the
agreement would be so treated; or

(b)on an application by the Ministry or any other person interested
to the county court, the county court determines, having regard to
the interests of the persons owning the land, that some person
shall be treated as the occupier of the land other than the person
who but for the determination would be so treated;

(2) Where two or more parcels of land are being farmed by the
same person any question arising under this Part of this Act as to
the occupier thereof shall be determined, if the farming of any of
the parcels is under the control of an agent or servant, by
reference to the person by whom the agent or servant is employed
and not by reference to the agent or servant.

Expenditure of Ministry to be defrayed out of moneys provided by
Parliament.

THE MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE (IN THIS ACT REFERRED TO AS ""THE
MINISTER'') SHALL ESTABLISH A GENERAL AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
TO ADVISE HIM ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THIS ACT, TOGETHER WITH SUCH
OTHER AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEES AS THE MINISTER MAY FROM TIME
TO TIME THINK NECESSARY TO ADVISE HIM ON SUCH OTHER MATTERS,
INCLUDING AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF LIVESTOCK, AS
HE MAY THINK PROPER. B>(2) THE MINISTER SHALL CONSULT SUCH
ORGANISATION AS APPEARS TO HIM TO REPRESENT THE INTERESTS OF FARMERS
BEFORE APPOINTING THE GENERAL AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
AFORESAID, AND SHALL APPOINT AS MEMBERS OF OTHER AGRICULTURAL
ADVISORY COMMITTEES SUCH PERSONS AS APPEAR TO HIM, AFTER CONSULTATION
WITH SUCH ORGANISATION AND WITH THE INTERESTS CONCERNED, TO BE BEST
QUALIFIED TO ADVISE ON THE MATTERS TO BE REFERRED TO THE
COMMITTEES. 6 EDUCATION AND RESEARCH - SECT 26

26.(1) All expenditure incurred by the Ministry in carrying this Act
into effect and all payments made by the Ministry under or in
pursuance of any of the provisions of this Act, including the
payment of any grant, premium or other sum which the Ministry is
authorised to make or pay under or by virtue of Part I of this
Act or of any scheme or arrangement made thereunder, shall, to such
extent as the Ministry of Finance may approve, be defrayed by the
Ministry out of moneys provided by Parliament.

(2) All sums payable to the Ministry under or by virtue of any
provision contained in this Act shall, unless any scheme made
pursuant to that provision otherwise provides, be appropriated in aid
of moneys provided by Parliament under the preceding sub-section.

THE MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE (IN THIS ACT REFERRED TO AS ""THE
MINISTER'') SHALL ESTABLISH A GENERAL AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
TO ADVISE HIM ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THIS ACT, TOGETHER WITH SUCH
OTHER AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEES AS THE MINISTER MAY FROM TIME
TO TIME THINK NECESSARY TO ADVISE HIM ON SUCH OTHER MATTERS,
INCLUDING AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF LIVESTOCK, AS
HE MAY THINK PROPER. B>(2) THE MINISTER SHALL CONSULT SUCH
ORGANISATION AS APPEARS TO HIM TO REPRESENT THE INTERESTS OF FARMERS
BEFORE APPOINTING THE GENERAL AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
AFORESAID, AND SHALL APPOINT AS MEMBERS OF OTHER AGRICULTURAL
ADVISORY COMMITTEES SUCH PERSONS AS APPEAR TO HIM, AFTER CONSULTATION
WITH SUCH ORGANISATION AND WITH THE INTERESTS CONCERNED, TO BE BEST
QUALIFIED TO ADVISE ON THE MATTERS TO BE REFERRED TO THE
COMMITTEES. 6 EDUCATION AND RESEARCH - SECT 27
Expenses of county committees of agriculture and agricultural advisory
committees.

27.(1) No salaries or fees shall be paid to members of any county
committee of agriculture, or to members of any agricultural advisory
committee constituted under section four of this Act, but the
Ministry may pay to such members out of moneys provided by
Parliament such out-of-pocket expenses (including travelling expenses
and subsistence allowances) reasonably and properly incurred in
connection with the business of such committees as the Ministry,
with the approval of the Ministry of Finance, may determine.

(2) Any expenses incurred by a county committee of agriculture, or
by an agricultural advisory committee constituted under section four
of this Act, in the performance of their functions under this Act
shall, to such extent as may be approved by the Ministry, be
defrayed by the Ministry out of moneys provided by Parliament.

S.28 rep. by 1959 c.2 (NI) s.4 sch.

THE MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE (IN THIS ACT REFERRED TO AS ""THE
MINISTER'') SHALL ESTABLISH A GENERAL AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
TO ADVISE HIM ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THIS ACT, TOGETHER WITH SUCH
OTHER AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEES AS THE MINISTER MAY FROM TIME
TO TIME THINK NECESSARY TO ADVISE HIM ON SUCH OTHER MATTERS,
INCLUDING AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF LIVESTOCK, AS
HE MAY THINK PROPER. B>(2) THE MINISTER SHALL CONSULT SUCH
ORGANISATION AS APPEARS TO HIM TO REPRESENT THE INTERESTS OF FARMERS
BEFORE APPOINTING THE GENERAL AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
AFORESAID, AND SHALL APPOINT AS MEMBERS OF OTHER AGRICULTURAL
ADVISORY COMMITTEES SUCH PERSONS AS APPEAR TO HIM, AFTER CONSULTATION
WITH SUCH ORGANISATION AND WITH THE INTERESTS CONCERNED, TO BE BEST
QUALIFIED TO ADVISE ON THE MATTERS TO BE REFERRED TO THE
COMMITTEES. 6 EDUCATION AND RESEARCH - SECT 29
Payments to assessors on appeals.

29. The Ministry shall, with the consent of the Ministry of
Finance, pay out of moneys provided by Parliament to each person
appointed to act as an assessor under section seventeen of this Act
such fees, travelling expenses and subsistence allowances as the
Ministry may determine.

THE MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE (IN THIS ACT REFERRED TO AS ""THE
MINISTER'') SHALL ESTABLISH A GENERAL AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
TO ADVISE HIM ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THIS ACT, TOGETHER WITH SUCH
OTHER AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEES AS THE MINISTER MAY FROM TIME
TO TIME THINK NECESSARY TO ADVISE HIM ON SUCH OTHER MATTERS,
INCLUDING AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF LIVESTOCK, AS
HE MAY THINK PROPER. B>(2) THE MINISTER SHALL CONSULT SUCH
ORGANISATION AS APPEARS TO HIM TO REPRESENT THE INTERESTS OF FARMERS
BEFORE APPOINTING THE GENERAL AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
AFORESAID, AND SHALL APPOINT AS MEMBERS OF OTHER AGRICULTURAL
ADVISORY COMMITTEES SUCH PERSONS AS APPEAR TO HIM, AFTER CONSULTATION
WITH SUCH ORGANISATION AND WITH THE INTERESTS CONCERNED, TO BE BEST
QUALIFIED TO ADVISE ON THE MATTERS TO BE REFERRED TO THE
COMMITTEES. 6 EDUCATION AND RESEARCH - SECT 30
Expenses under Part IV of this Act.

30.(1) There shall be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament

(a)any increase attributable to the provisions of Part IV of this
Act in the sums which, under the Superannuation Acts (Northern
Ireland), 1921 to 1947, are payable out of moneys so provided; and

Para.(b) spent

Subs.(2) spent

Meaning of "transferred officer".

THE MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE (IN THIS ACT REFERRED TO AS ""THE
MINISTER'') SHALL ESTABLISH A GENERAL AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
TO ADVISE HIM ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THIS ACT, TOGETHER WITH SUCH
OTHER AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEES AS THE MINISTER MAY FROM TIME
TO TIME THINK NECESSARY TO ADVISE HIM ON SUCH OTHER MATTERS,
INCLUDING AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF LIVESTOCK, AS
HE MAY THINK PROPER. B>(2) THE MINISTER SHALL CONSULT SUCH
ORGANISATION AS APPEARS TO HIM TO REPRESENT THE INTERESTS OF FARMERS
BEFORE APPOINTING THE GENERAL AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
AFORESAID, AND SHALL APPOINT AS MEMBERS OF OTHER AGRICULTURAL
ADVISORY COMMITTEES SUCH PERSONS AS APPEAR TO HIM, AFTER CONSULTATION
WITH SUCH ORGANISATION AND WITH THE INTERESTS CONCERNED, TO BE BEST
QUALIFIED TO ADVISE ON THE MATTERS TO BE REFERRED TO THE
COMMITTEES. 6 EDUCATION AND RESEARCH - SECT 31

31. In this Part of this Act the expression "transferred officer"
means an officer of a committee of agriculture appointed by the
council of a county for the purposes of Part II of the Act of
1899 who, by virtue of sub-section (1) of section one of the Act
of 1939, was transferred to the employment of the Ministry.

THE MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE (IN THIS ACT REFERRED TO AS ""THE
MINISTER'') SHALL ESTABLISH A GENERAL AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
TO ADVISE HIM ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THIS ACT, TOGETHER WITH SUCH
OTHER AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEES AS THE MINISTER MAY FROM TIME
TO TIME THINK NECESSARY TO ADVISE HIM ON SUCH OTHER MATTERS,
INCLUDING AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF LIVESTOCK, AS
HE MAY THINK PROPER. B>(2) THE MINISTER SHALL CONSULT SUCH
ORGANISATION AS APPEARS TO HIM TO REPRESENT THE INTERESTS OF FARMERS
BEFORE APPOINTING THE GENERAL AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
AFORESAID, AND SHALL APPOINT AS MEMBERS OF OTHER AGRICULTURAL
ADVISORY COMMITTEES SUCH PERSONS AS APPEAR TO HIM, AFTER CONSULTATION
WITH SUCH ORGANISATION AND WITH THE INTERESTS CONCERNED, TO BE BEST
QUALIFIED TO ADVISE ON THE MATTERS TO BE REFERRED TO THE
COMMITTEES. 6 EDUCATION AND RESEARCH - SECT 32
Provisions as to transferred officers having rights under the 1925
Scheme.

32.(1) Subject to the provisions of the next two succeeding
sections, where at the passing of this Act a transferred officer

(a)is in the employment of the Ministry; and

(b)is an officer to whom the Agricultural and Technical Teachers'
Superannuation Scheme, 1925 (in this Part of this Act referred to
as "the Scheme") applies;

(2) For the purposes of section three of the Superannuation Act
(Northern Ireland), 1925 (which, as amended by section three of the
Teachers' Superannuation Act (Northern Ireland), 1936, provides for
the reckoning of prior pensionable service of certain teachers who
become civil servants) a transferred officer to whom the
Superannuation Acts apply by virtue of the preceding sub-section,
shall be deemed to become a civil servant at the passing of this
Act.

Ss.3337 rep. by SLR 1980

S.38 rep. by 1960 c.19 (NI) s.2(5). S.39 rep. in pt. by SLR 1973;
SLR 1980, residue amends ss.1,3 of 1939 c.35 (NI)

THE MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE (IN THIS ACT REFERRED TO AS ""THE
MINISTER'') SHALL ESTABLISH A GENERAL AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
TO ADVISE HIM ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THIS ACT, TOGETHER WITH SUCH
OTHER AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEES AS THE MINISTER MAY FROM TIME
TO TIME THINK NECESSARY TO ADVISE HIM ON SUCH OTHER MATTERS,
INCLUDING AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF LIVESTOCK, AS
HE MAY THINK PROPER. B>(2) THE MINISTER SHALL CONSULT SUCH
ORGANISATION AS APPEARS TO HIM TO REPRESENT THE INTERESTS OF FARMERS
BEFORE APPOINTING THE GENERAL AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
AFORESAID, AND SHALL APPOINT AS MEMBERS OF OTHER AGRICULTURAL
ADVISORY COMMITTEES SUCH PERSONS AS APPEAR TO HIM, AFTER CONSULTATION
WITH SUCH ORGANISATION AND WITH THE INTERESTS CONCERNED, TO BE BEST
QUALIFIED TO ADVISE ON THE MATTERS TO BE REFERRED TO THE
COMMITTEES. 6 EDUCATION AND RESEARCH - SECT 40
Provisions as to entry and inspection.

40.(1) Any person authorised by the Ministry in that behalf shall
have power at all reasonable times to enter on and inspect any
land for the purpose of determining whether, and if so in what
manner, any of the powers conferred by this Act are to be
exercised in relation to the land, or whether, and if so in what
manner, any direction given or served under any such power has been
complied with.

(2) Any person who proposes to exercise any power of entry or
inspection conferred by this Act shall if so required produce a
duly authenticated document showing that he has been either generally
or specially authorised by the Ministry to do so and where an
inspection of any land is made for the purpose of enabling the
Ministry to determine whether or not an improvement notice should be
served under section sixteen of this Act the person making the
inspection shall give to the occupier of the land at least two
days' notice of the intended inspection.

(3) Any person who obstructs any person authorised by the Ministry
to exercise any such power as aforesaid shall be guilty of an
offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding
[#20] for a first offence or [#50] for a second or any subsequent
offence.

THE MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE (IN THIS ACT REFERRED TO AS ""THE
MINISTER'') SHALL ESTABLISH A GENERAL AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
TO ADVISE HIM ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THIS ACT, TOGETHER WITH SUCH
OTHER AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEES AS THE MINISTER MAY FROM TIME
TO TIME THINK NECESSARY TO ADVISE HIM ON SUCH OTHER MATTERS,
INCLUDING AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF LIVESTOCK, AS
HE MAY THINK PROPER. B>(2) THE MINISTER SHALL CONSULT SUCH
ORGANISATION AS APPEARS TO HIM TO REPRESENT THE INTERESTS OF FARMERS
BEFORE APPOINTING THE GENERAL AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
AFORESAID, AND SHALL APPOINT AS MEMBERS OF OTHER AGRICULTURAL
ADVISORY COMMITTEES SUCH PERSONS AS APPEAR TO HIM, AFTER CONSULTATION
WITH SUCH ORGANISATION AND WITH THE INTERESTS CONCERNED, TO BE BEST
QUALIFIED TO ADVISE ON THE MATTERS TO BE REFERRED TO THE
COMMITTEES. 6 EDUCATION AND RESEARCH - SECT 41
Service of notices.

41.(1) Any notice or other document required or authorised by or
under this Act to be given to or served on any person shall be
duly given or served if it is delivered to him, or left at his
proper address, or sent to him by post in a registered letter.

(2) Any such document required or authorised to be given to or
served on an incorporated company or body shall be duly given or
served if given to or served on the secretary or clerk of the
company or body.

(3) For the purposes of this section and of section twenty-six of
the Interpretation Act, 1889, the proper address of any person to
or on whom any such document as aforesaid is to be given or
served shall, in the case of a secretary or clerk of any
incorporated company or body, be that of the registered or principal
office of the company or body, and in any other case be the last
known address of the person in question.

(4) Where any document is to be given to or served on a person
as being the person having any interest in land, and it is not
practicable after reasonable inquiry to ascertain his name or
address, the document may be given or served by addressing it to
him by the description of the person having that interest in the
land (naming it), and delivering the document to some responsible
person on the land or by affixing it, or a copy of it, to some
conspicuous object on the land.

THE MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE (IN THIS ACT REFERRED TO AS ""THE
MINISTER'') SHALL ESTABLISH A GENERAL AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
TO ADVISE HIM ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THIS ACT, TOGETHER WITH SUCH
OTHER AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEES AS THE MINISTER MAY FROM TIME
TO TIME THINK NECESSARY TO ADVISE HIM ON SUCH OTHER MATTERS,
INCLUDING AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF LIVESTOCK, AS
HE MAY THINK PROPER. B>(2) THE MINISTER SHALL CONSULT SUCH
ORGANISATION AS APPEARS TO HIM TO REPRESENT THE INTERESTS OF FARMERS
BEFORE APPOINTING THE GENERAL AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
AFORESAID, AND SHALL APPOINT AS MEMBERS OF OTHER AGRICULTURAL
ADVISORY COMMITTEES SUCH PERSONS AS APPEAR TO HIM, AFTER CONSULTATION
WITH SUCH ORGANISATION AND WITH THE INTERESTS CONCERNED, TO BE BEST
QUALIFIED TO ADVISE ON THE MATTERS TO BE REFERRED TO THE
COMMITTEES. 6 EDUCATION AND RESEARCH - SECT 42
Regulations.

42.(1) The Ministry may make regulations for prescribing anything
which under this Act is to be prescribed and generally for carrying
into effect the provisions of this Act.

(2) Any regulations made by the Ministry under this Act, other than
regulations made under section twenty-one of this Act, shall, as
soon as may be after they are made, be laid before each House of
Parliament. If either House of Parliament, within the statutory
period next after any such regulation has been laid before it,
resolves that the regulation shall be annulled, the regulation shall,
after the date of the resolution, be void, but without prejudice to
the validity of anything done thereunder or to the making of a new
regulation.

THE MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE (IN THIS ACT REFERRED TO AS ""THE
MINISTER'') SHALL ESTABLISH A GENERAL AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
TO ADVISE HIM ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THIS ACT, TOGETHER WITH SUCH
OTHER AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEES AS THE MINISTER MAY FROM TIME
TO TIME THINK NECESSARY TO ADVISE HIM ON SUCH OTHER MATTERS,
INCLUDING AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF LIVESTOCK, AS
HE MAY THINK PROPER. B>(2) THE MINISTER SHALL CONSULT SUCH
ORGANISATION AS APPEARS TO HIM TO REPRESENT THE INTERESTS OF FARMERS
BEFORE APPOINTING THE GENERAL AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
AFORESAID, AND SHALL APPOINT AS MEMBERS OF OTHER AGRICULTURAL
ADVISORY COMMITTEES SUCH PERSONS AS APPEAR TO HIM, AFTER CONSULTATION
WITH SUCH ORGANISATION AND WITH THE INTERESTS CONCERNED, TO BE BEST
QUALIFIED TO ADVISE ON THE MATTERS TO BE REFERRED TO THE
COMMITTEES. 6 EDUCATION AND RESEARCH - SECT 43
Interpretation.

43.(1) In this Act unless the contrary intention appears the
following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them, that
is to say:

"Act of 1899" means the Agriculture and Technical Instruction
(Ireland) Act, 1899;

"Act of 1919" means the Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1919;

"Act of 1939" means the Agriculture (Emergency Provisions) Act
(Northern Ireland), 1939;

"agricultural land" means land used for agriculture, which is so
used for the purposes of a trade or business, or which is
designated by the Ministry for the purposes of this Act, and
includes any land so designated as land which in the opinion of
the Ministry ought to be brought into use for agriculture, but no
such designation shall extend to any land

(a)used as pleasure grounds, private gardens or allotment gardens; or

(b)kept or preserved mainly or exclusively for the purposes of sport
or recreation, except where the Ministry is satisfied that its use
for agriculture would not be inconsistent with its use for the said
purposes and so states in the designation;

"agriculture" includes, without prejudice to any other provision of
this Act, horticulture, fruit growing, seed growing, dairy farming
and livestock breeding and keeping, the use of land as grazing
land, meadow land, market gardens and nursery grounds, and the use
of land for woodlands where that use is ancillary to the farming
of land for other agricultural purposes, and "agricultural" shall be
construed accordingly;

"allotment garden" means an allotment not exceeding [0.10 hectare] in
extent which is wholly or mainly cultivated by the occupier for the
production of vegetables or fruit for consumption by himself or his
family;

"civil servant" and "civil service" have the same meanings as in
the Superannuation Acts;

"county" shall not include a county borough; and references to the
council of a county shall be construed accordingly;

"enactment" includes any provision in any Act (whether public
general, local or private) of the Parliament of Northern Ireland or
of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and a provision in any
Order in Council, order, regulation, rule, bye-law, scheme or other
instrument made under any such Act;

Definition rep. by 1951 c.3 (NI) s.11(2) sch.2

"estate or interest" includes the estate or interest of a mortgagee
whether legal or equitable and a right secured by the deposit of a
land certificate or other documents of title;

"functions" includes powers and duties;

"hill farming land" has the same meaning as in section one of the
Hill Farming Act, 1946;

"livestock" includes any animal kept for the production of food,
wool, skins or fur or for the purpose of its use in the farming
of land;

"pasture" includes meadow;

"perform" includes exercise;

"plant" includes fungus;

"prescribed" means prescribed by regulations made by the Ministry;

"produced" means anything (whether alive or dead) produced in the
course of agriculture; and "production" shall be construed
accordingly;

"relevant circumstances" in relation to any land includes all
circumstances affecting the farming thereof other than circumstances
personal to the owner or occupier thereof;

"statutory period" means...

definition in 1954 c.33 (NI) s.41(2) substituted by 1979 NI12 art.10

"Superannuation Acts" means the Superannuation Acts (Northern Ireland),
1921 to 1947.

(2) References in this Act to the farming of land include
references to the carrying on in relation to the land of any
agricultural activity.

Subs.(3)(4) rep. by 1954 c.33 (NI) s.48(1) sch.

S.44 with Third Schedule, effects repeals

THE MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE (IN THIS ACT REFERRED TO AS ""THE
MINISTER'') SHALL ESTABLISH A GENERAL AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
TO ADVISE HIM ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THIS ACT, TOGETHER WITH SUCH
OTHER AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEES AS THE MINISTER MAY FROM TIME
TO TIME THINK NECESSARY TO ADVISE HIM ON SUCH OTHER MATTERS,
INCLUDING AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF LIVESTOCK, AS
HE MAY THINK PROPER. B>(2) THE MINISTER SHALL CONSULT SUCH
ORGANISATION AS APPEARS TO HIM TO REPRESENT THE INTERESTS OF FARMERS
BEFORE APPOINTING THE GENERAL AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
AFORESAID, AND SHALL APPOINT AS MEMBERS OF OTHER AGRICULTURAL
ADVISORY COMMITTEES SUCH PERSONS AS APPEAR TO HIM, AFTER CONSULTATION
WITH SUCH ORGANISATION AND WITH THE INTERESTS CONCERNED, TO BE BEST
QUALIFIED TO ADVISE ON THE MATTERS TO BE REFERRED TO THE
COMMITTEES. 6 EDUCATION AND RESEARCH - SECT 45
Short title.

45. This Act may be cited as the Agriculture Act (Northern
Ireland), 1949.

First Schedule rep. by 1972 c.15 (NI) s.1(2). Second Schedule rep.
by SLR 1980. Third Schedule rep. by SLR (NI) 1953