Agriculture (Miscellaneous War Provisions) Act 1940

  1. Introductory Text

  2. PART I Wheat

    1. 1.Deficiency payments

    2. 2.Standard price

    3. 3.Suspension of quota payments

    4. 4.Delegation to committee of powers of Wheat Commission

    5. 5.Extension of powers of Wheat Commission

    6. 6.Suspension of functions of Flour Millers' Corporation

    7. 7.Interpretation, construction and citation of Part I

  3. PART II Oats, Rye, Barley and Ploughing

    1. 8.Amendment of oats subsidy

    2. 9.Extension of oats subsidy to rye

    3. 10.Amendment of barley subsidy

    4. 11.Amendment as to ploughing grants

    5. 12.Ploughing grants in respect of smallholdings in Scotland where landholders share in common grazing

    6. 13.Interpretation, construction, citation and expenses of Part II, and repeals consequential thereon

  4. PART III Land Drainage

    1. 14.Drainage of outlying land

    2. 15.Mole drainage

    3. 16.Powers over dams

    4. 17.Control of sluices

    5. 18.Powers of entry

    6. 19.Powers of local authorities

    7. 20.Extension of powers of Catchment Boards as respects maintenance of watercourses

    8. 21.Obstruction and penalties

    9. 22.Interpretation, construction, citation and duration of Part III

  5. PART IV Miscellaneous and General

    1. 23.Provisions as to requisitioned land

    2. 24.Antedating of directions to plough up land

    3. 25.Expenses of Minister in providing goods and services required for agriculture

    4. 26.Exclusion of certain holdings from Agricultural Holdings Act

    5. 27.Extension of land fertility scheme to gardens

    6. 28.Regulations as to importation of livestock

    7. 29.Provision for cleansing of channels of watercourses in Scotland

    8. 30.Definitions

    9. 31.Application to Scotland

    10. 32.Application to Northern Ireland

    11. 33.Short title

  6. SCHEDULES

    1. FIRST SCHEDULE

      Provisions of Wheat Acts in which references to accounting periods are to be substituted for references to cereal years

    2. SECOND SCHEDULE

      Amendments of the Wheat (Amendment) Act, 1939, consequential on suspension oe quota payments

      1. 1.Any reference in section thirteen of the Wheat (Amendment) Act,...

      2. 2.Any order in force under section fourteen of the said...

      3. 3.Any byelaws made by virtue of subsection (2) of section...

      4. 4.Subsections (2) and (3) of section nineteen of the said...

      5. 5.Subsection (1) of section twenty-six of the said Act (which...

    3. THIRD SCHEDULE

      Temporary Amendments of Agricultural Development Act, 1939, consequential on Rye Subsidy

      1. 1.Section three of the Act of 1939 (which relates to...

      2. 2.Section four of the said Act (which relates to negligent...

      3. 3.Section six of the said Act (which relates to changes...

    4. FOURTH SCHEDULE

      Provisions of Agricultural Development Act, 1939, Repealed

    5. FIFTH SCHEDULE

      Provisions as to certain drainage schemes

      1. 1.Every scheme shall set out— (a) the area of the...

      2. 2.The Board shall give to the owners and occupiers of...

      3. 3.After considering any objections duly made to the draft of...

      4. 4.After considering any such objections which have not been withdrawn...

      5. 5.No land shall be included in the area of the...

      6. 6.If the scheme is not approved by the Minister, no...

      7. 7.If the scheme is approved by the Minister, the Board...