Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1949

6 Powers of Milk Marketing Boards to conserve grass and forage crops and provide artificial insemination services.

(1) Notwithstanding anything in the Agricultural Marketing Acts, 1931 and 1933, or in any milk marketing scheme in force under those Acts, the board administering any such scheme shall have power and shall be deemed always to have had power, with the approval of the appropriate Minister, to establish or acquire a centre for the artificial drying of grass and forage crops and to operate and maintain that centre and to carry on any activity reasonably incidental thereto.

(2) Without prejudice to the provisions of the Agricultural Marketing Acts, 1931 and 1933, relating to the powers that may be conferred on agricultural marketing boards by marketing schemes in force under those Acts, section five of the Agriculture (Artificial Insemination) Act, 1946 (which empowers a milk marketing board to provide services of artificial insemination for cattle owned by persons not being registered producers of milk) shall have effect, and shall be deemed always to have had effect, as if the words " owned by persons not being registered producers of milk " were omitted.

(3) There shall be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament any increase attributable to this section in the sums payable, out of moneys so provided, under section eleven of the Agricultural Marketing Act, 1931, to the Agricultural Marketing Fund and the Agricultural Marketing (Scotland) Fund.