Agricultural Land (Utilisation) Act 1931

24 Application to Scotland. E+W+S

In the application of this Act to Scotland the following provisions shall have effect:—

F1 (a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2

F3 (c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2

(e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F2

(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 M1 Small Holding Colonies Acts, 1916 and M2 1918, 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) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F4

(h) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F4

(i) Section one of the M3 Land Settlement (Scotland) Act, 1919, which relates to the compulsory acquisition of land for the purposes of the M4 Small Holding Colonies Acts, 1916 and M5 1918, 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) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F5 sections twelve and seventeen shall not apply.

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Amendments (Textual)

F1 S. 24(a) repealed (5.11.1993) by 1993 c. 50, s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt.III.

F2 S. 24(b)(d)(e) repealed by Agriculture (Scotland) Act 1948 (c. 45), Sch. 10

F3 S. 24(c) repealed (5.11.1993) by 1993 c. 50, s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt.III.

F4 S. 24(g)(h) repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1973 (c. 39), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. VIII

F5 Words repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1973 (c. 39), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. VIII

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Functions of Department of Agriculture for Scotland now exercisable by Secretary of State: Reorganisation of Offices (Scotland) Act 1939 (c. 20), s. 1.

C2 Agriculture (Scotland) Fund wound up by Agriculture (Scotland) Act 1948 (c. 45), s. 67

Marginal Citations

M1 1916 c. 38.

M2 1918 c. 26.

M3 1919 c. 97.

M4 1916 c. 38.

M5 1918 c. 26.