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(1)Where a labourer who has been regularly employed on any land acquired by the Minister under this act proves to the satisfaction of the Minister that the effect of the acquisition was to deprive him of his employment, and that there was no employment of an equally beneficial character available to him in the same locality, the Minister may pay to him such compensation as the Minister thinks just for his loss of employment or for his expenses in moving to another locality, and any sum so paid shall be deemed to be part of the expenses of the acquisition of the land.
(2)No compensation shall be payable under section forty-three of the M1Small Holdings and Allotments Act, 1908 or under the foregoing provisions of this section, to any person for whom a small holding is provided under Part II of this Act.
Marginal Citations
Textual Amendments
F1S. 22 repealed by National Loans Act 1968 (c. 13), s. 24(2), Sch. 6 Pt. I
The powers of the Minister under sections . . . F2 thirteen of this Act shall be exercised in accordance with such conditions as may, after consultation with the Minister, be prescribed by the Treasury.
Textual Amendments
F2Words repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1973 (c. 39), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. VIII
In the application of this Act to Scotland the following provisions shall have effect:—
(a). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F3 a reference to the Minister or to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries shall be construed as a reference to the Department of Agriculture for Scotland (hereinafter in this section referred to as the Department). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F4 a reference to the council of a borough, urban district, or parish, shall be construed as a reference to [F5an islands area] or a district council, and a reference to a borough, urban district, or parish, shall be construed accordingly; any reference in Part II of this Act to a county council shall not apply, and the expression “easement” means servitude, and any reference to selling includes a reference to feuing.
(b). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F6
(c)For any reference to the Small Holdings and Allotments Acts there shall be substituted a reference to the Allotments (Scotland) Acts, 1892 to 1926; for any reference to section sixteen of the M2Allotments Act, 1922, there shall be substituted a reference to section sixteen of the M3Allotments (Scotland) Act, 1922; for any reference to section thirty-two of the M4Small Holdings and Allotments Act, 1908, there shall be substituted a reference to section eleven of the M5Allotments (Scotland) Act, 1892; for any reference to section four of the M6Allotments Act, 1925, there shall be substituted a reference to section one of the M7Allotments (Scotland) Act, 1926, and any reference to section eight of the said Act of 1925 shall not apply; and for any references to section twenty-one of the M8Land Settlement (Facilities) Act, 1919, there shall be substituted a reference to section twenty-two of the M9Land Settlement (Scotland) Act, 1919.
(d). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F6
(e). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F6
(f)Subsections (1) and (4) of section five and section six of this Act shall not apply, but the Department shall have power to provide, in accordance with the provisions of the M10Small Holding Colonies Acts, 1916 and M111918, or of the Small Landholders (Scotland) Acts, 1886 to 1919, either on land belonging to the Department or on land belonging to another person with the consent of that person, a holding for an unemployed person within the meaning of the said subsection (1) or for an agricultural worker, or for a person who, being or having been a member of His Majesty’s Forces, has had a suitable course of training for agriculture, notwithstanding that such unemployed person, agricultural worker or other person would be unable to cultivate the holding unless the facilities set forth in subsection (2) of the said section five were extended to him.
(g). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F7
(h). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F7
(i)Section one of the M12Land Settlement (Scotland) Act, 1919, which relates to the compulsory acquisition of land for the purposes of the M13Small Holding Colonies Acts, 1916 and M141918, shall have effect as if the limitation of the period, during which the powers thereby conferred may be exercised, were omitted, and any provision in any Act in force at the passing of this Act which limits the period for which that section is to remain in operation shall cease to have effect.
(j)Subsection (3) of section eighteen of the Land Settlement (Scotland) Act, 1919, shall have effect as if for the purpose therein specified there were substituted the following purposes:—
(i)the provision of allotments or allotment gardens and the purchase or leasing and equipment of land therefor;
(ii)the making of grants or loans to local authorities or to societies or associations having as their object or one of their objects the provision of allotments or allotment gardens in aid of expenditure by such authorities societies or associations in connection with the provision of allotments or allotment gardens.
(k). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F8 sections twelve and seventeen shall not apply.
Textual Amendments
F3Words repealed by National Loans Act 1968 (c. 13), Sch. 6 Pt. I
F4Words repealed by Reorganisation of Offices (Scotland) Act 1939 (c. 20), Sch.
F5Words substituted by Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (c. 65, SIF 81:2), s. 214(2), Sch. 27 Pt. II para. 78
F8Words repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1973 (c. 39), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. VIII
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Functions of Department of Agriculture for Scotland now exercisable by Secretary of State: Reorganisation of Offices (Scotland) Act 1939 (c. 20), s. 1.
C2Agriculture (Scotland) Fund wound up by Agriculture (Scotland) Act 1948 (c. 45), s. 67
Marginal Citations
(1)This Act may be cited as the Agricultural Land (Utilisation) Act, 1931, and Part II of this Act and the Small Holdings and Allotments Acts, 1908 to 1926, may be cited as the Small Holdings and Allotments Acts, 1908 to 1931, and so much of the said Part II as relates to allotments and the Allotments Acts, 1908 to 1925, may be cited as the Allotments Acts, 1908 to 1931.
(2)This Act shall not extend to Northern Ireland.
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