Agriculture (Miscellaneous War Provisions) Act 1940

11 Amendment as to ploughing grants

(1) The Ministers may, by order made with the consent of the Treasury, direct that Part IV of the Act of 1939 (which makes provision for ploughing grants in respect of the ploughing up of land in the year nineteen hundred and thirty-nine) snail apply to the ploughing up of land in any subsequent year falling wholly or partly within the war period as it applies (as amended by this or the next following section) to the ploughing up of land in the year nineteen hundred and thirty-nine.

(2) Subsection (2) of section twenty-seven of the Act of 1939 (which specifies conditions which must be satisfied in order that land may be qualified for a ploughing grant) shall have effect as if the following paragraphs were substituted for paragraphs (a) and (d) thereof:—

“(a) that the land has been ploughed up during such period in any year as may be specified by regulations made by the Ministers;”

“(d) that the land either—

(i) was capable of being substantially improved, in respect of fitness for re-seeding or re-introduction into a suitable rotation, by being ploughed up and dealt with as aforesaid, and would be capable of producing satisfactory arable crops for harvesting in the year in which it was ploughed up or the next following year; or

(ii) was capable of being substantially improved by being re-seeded to grass and has been or will have been so re-seeded, in accordance with regulations made by the Ministers, before such date in the year in which it was ploughed up or the next following year as may be specified in the regulations;”

(3) The following two subsections shall be substituted for subsections (2) and (3) of section twenty-eight of the Act of 1939 :—

“(2) A ploughing grant shall not be made—

(a) in respect of any such land as aforesaid comprised in a farm, if the total area of such land comprised in the farm is less than one acre in extent; or

(b) in respect of any parcel of such land as aforesaid which is not comprised in a farm, if the area of the parcel is less than one acre in extent.

(3) In computing the amount of any such grant payable in respect of any such land comprised in a farm, or in respect of any parcel of such land not so comprised, if the total area of such land so comprised or the area of the parcel, as the case may be, is not an exact number of half acres, the odd fraction of a half acre shall be disregarded.”