Livestock Rearing Act 1951

6 Extension of periods for payment of subsidies in respect of hill sheep and cattle

In section thirteen of the principal Act (which empowers the appropriate Minister to make, in accordance with hill sheep schemes, subsidy payments in respect of sheep comprised in flocks on any of the relevant days, that is to say, in the case of a scheme having effect as respects England and Wales or Scotland, such day of December in the year nineteen hundred and forty-six and in the four next succeeding years as may be specified in the scheme in relation to each of those years and, in relation to a scheme having effect as respects Northern Ireland, such day of January in the year nineteen hundred and forty-seven and in the four next succeeding years as may be so specified, and to make, in accordance with hill cattle schemes, subsidy payments in respect of cattle in respect of the year nineteen hundred and forty-seven and each of the four next succeeding years), for the words " the four next succeeding years ", wherever those words occur, there shall be substituted the words " the nine next succeeding years ".