Agriculture Act 1970

104 Financing of agricultural training

(1) Subsections (2) and (3) of this section shall have effect as respects expenses incurred by the Agricultural, Horticultural and Forestry Industry Training Board established under section 1 of the [1964 c. 16.] Industrial Training Act 1964 so far as (those expenses are attributable to the exercise of that Board's functions in relation to activities in agriculture within the meaning of section 109(3) of the [1947 c. 48.] Agriculture Act 1947 or, as the case may be, section 86(3) of the [1948 c. 45.] Agriculture (Scotland) Act 1948 ; and those expenses so far as so attributable are hereafter in this section referred to as " relevant expenses ".

(2) Notwithstanding anything in section 4(1) of the said Act of 1964, any money towards meeting any relevant expenses incurred in respect of any period beginning on or after 1st September 1969 which, but for this section, would have fallen to be raised by a levy under that Act shall not be so raised, but—

(a) subject to subsection (5) of this section, the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity shall from time to time certify an amount as being one required by the Board for meeting such expenses other than expenses by way of payment of interest on, or repayment of, any loan, and shall pay the amount so certified to the Board;

(b) the said Secretary of State shall also from time to time pay to the Board any amounts paid or payable by them by way of interest on, or repayment of, any loan made to them by a third party so far as so made for the purpose of defraying relevant expenses ; and

(c) the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food shall pay to the said Secretary of State—

(i) any amount certified by that Secretary of State under paragraph (a) of this subsection, and

(ii) any amounts certified by that Secretary of State either as payable by him by virtue of paragraph (b) of this subsection or as payable to him by way of interest on, or repayment of, any loan made by him so far as so made for the purpose of defraying relevant expenses.

(3) In consequence of the provisions of subsection (2) of this section, any proposal by the Board aforesaid under paragraph (b) of section 7(1) of the said Act of 1964 for the raising and collection of a levy shall not be made in relation to any relevant expenses, but the proposals submitted by that Board under paragraph (a) of the said section 7(1) for the exercise of the Board's functions referred to in that paragraph shall include an estimate of any relevant expenses which will be incurred in connection with those proposals.

(4) If—

(a) the Ministry of Agriculture for Northern Ireland submits to the Ministry of Finance for Northern Ireland proposals for the provision by the said Ministry of Agriculture of training in relation to activities in agriculture within the meaning of section 43(1) of the [1949 c. 2 (N.I.).] Agriculture Act (Northern Ireland) 1949 as being training which (after consultation with any organisation or association of organisations appearing to the said Ministry of Agriculture to be representative of substantial numbers of employers engaged in such activities in Northern Ireland and with any organisation or association of organisations so appearing to be representative of substantial numbers of persons employed in such activities in Northern Ireland) the said Ministry of Agriculture considers to be required ; and

(b) those proposals include an estimate of the expenditure which will be incurred in giving effect to them; and

(c) the said Ministry of Finance approves those proposals with the concurrence of the Ministers,

then, subject to subsection (5) of this section, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food shall pay into the Exchequer of Northern Ireland any amount from time to time certified by the said Ministry of Finance with the approval of the Ministers as being required for meeting expenses incurred on or after 1st April 1970 in giving effect to those proposals.

In this subsection " the Ministers " means the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Wales, the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State concerned with agriculture in Northern Ireland.

(5) In the case of expenses to be incurred after 31st March 1971, any certificate of the Secretary of State under subsection (2)(a) of this section, and any approval of the Ministers under subsection (4) of this section to the certifying of any amount by the Ministry of Finance for Northern Ireland, shall be given before the expenses are incurred, and shall be so given by order made by statutory instrument which shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.