Textual Amendments
F1S. 21 repealed (5.11.1993) by 1993 c. 50, s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt.III.
Textual Amendments
F2S. 22 repealed by National Loans Act 1968 (c. 13), s. 24(2), Sch. 6 Pt. I
Textual Amendments
F3S. 23 repealed (5.11.1993) by 1993 c. 50, s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt.III.
In the application of this Act to Scotland the following provisions shall have effect:—
F4(a). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
F5(b). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
F6(c). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
F5(d). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
F5(e). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(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 M1Small Holding Colonies Acts, 1916 and M21918, 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.
F7(g). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
F7(h). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(i)Section one of the M3Land Settlement (Scotland) Act, 1919, which relates to the compulsory acquisition of land for the purposes of the M4Small Holding Colonies Acts, 1916 and M51918, 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.
F8(j). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(k)F9. . . sections twelve and seventeen shall not apply.
Textual Amendments
F4S. 24(a) repealed (5.11.1993) by 1993 c. 50, s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt.III.
F5S. 24(b)(d)(e) repealed by Agriculture (Scotland) Act 1948 (c. 45), Sch. 10
F6S. 24(c) repealed (5.11.1993) by 1993 c. 50, s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt.III.
F7S. 24(g)(h) repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1973 (c. 39), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. VIII
F8S. 24(j) repealed (S.) (1.4.2018) by Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015 (asp 6), s. 142(1), sch. 5; S.S.I. 2017/458, art. 2, sch.
F9Words 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.