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Small Holdings Colonies (Amendment) Act 1918

1918 CHAPTER 26 8 and 9 Geo 5

An Act to authorise an increase in the amount of land which may be acquired for the purposes of the Small Holding Colonies Act, 1916, and otherwise to amend that Act.

[30th July 1918]

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Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Act repealed (E.W.) by Agriculture Act 1970 (c. 40), ss. 65, 113(3), Sch. 5 Pt. III; extended (S.) by Agriculture (Scotland) Act 1948 (c. 45), s. 64

C2 Words of enactment omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), s. 3

1 Increase in area of land which may be acquired for purposes of s. 1 of 1916 c. 38. E+W+S+N.I.

Subject to the provisions of this section, subsection (3) of section one of the Small Holding Colonies Act, 1916 (hereinafter referred to as “the principal Act”), which limits the area of the land which may be acquired by the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries for the purposes of that section, shall have effect as if forty-five thousand acres were therein substituted for four thousand five hundred acres, twenty thousand acres for two thousand acres, and sixty thousand acres for six thousand acres, provided that for the purposes of the acquisition, equipment, and settlement of the area hereby authorised to be acquired by the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, the Board may, as respects any county, with the consent of the council of that county, employ that council as their agents, and vest in them all or any of the powers hereby or by the principal Act conferred upon them, in addition to those vested in such council by virtue of the M1 Small Holdings and Allotments Act, 1908 . . . F1

Provided also that no portion of the additional land authorised by this Act to be acquired by the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries shall be so acquired except after consultation with the chairman of the council of the county in which the land proposed to be acquired is situate, or with a committee of that council.

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Amendments (Textual)

F1 Words repealed by Land Settlement (Facilities) Act 1919 (c. 59), Sch. 3 and Land Settlement (Scotland) Act 1919 (c. 97), Sch. 4

Marginal Citations

M1 1908 c. 36.

2 Short title and citation. E+W+S+N.I.

This Act may be cited as the Small Holding Colonies (Amendment) Act, 1918, and the principal Act and this Act may be cited together as the Small Holding Colonies Acts, 1916 and 1918.