Agricultural Wages (Scotland) Act 1949

2 Agricultural wages committees for districts.

(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Secretary of State shall, as soon as may be by order made by statutory instrument, divide Scotland into districts and shall establish an agricultural wages committee for each district:

Provided that, if in the case of each of the committees for two or more districts, there are passed resolutions in favour of varying the boundaries and numbers of these districts, the Secretary of State may, if he thinks it expedient, by order made by statutory instrument vary the boundaries and number of the districts into which Scotland is divided by this subsection and may make such provision as is necessary in consequence of any such variation, with regard to the establishment of committees for the districts affected by the variation.

(2) The functions of agricultural wages committees under this Act shall, subject to the provisions of this and any order made thereunder, be exercised in accordance with any direction in that behalf given by the Board.

(3) A resolution for the purposes of the proviso to subsection (1) of this section that is passed at a meeting of an agricultural wages committee unanimously by such of the members thereof representing employers and such of the members thereof representing workers in agriculture as are present and voting shall be deemed, for the purposes of the said proviso, to be a resolution of those members.

(4) The provisions of the Second Schedule to this Act shall have effect with respect to the constitution and proceedings of agricultural wages committees.