Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1944

8 Application to Scotland

This Act shall in its application to Scotland have effect subject to the following modifications—

(a) section one shall not apply ;

(b) in section two—

(i) for references to the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries there shall be substituted references to the Secretary of State ;

(ii) for references to the Agricultural Credits Act, 1928, and the Agricultural Mortgage Corporation there shall be respectively substituted references to the [19 & 20 Geo. 5. c. 13.] Agricultural Credits (Scotland) Act, 1929, and the Scottish Agricultural Securities Corporation; and for the reference in subsection (1) to two million five hundred thousand pounds there shall be substituted a reference to four hundred and twenty-five thousand pounds;

(iii) for subsection (2) the following subsection shall be substituted :—

“(2) 'If the Memorandum and Articles of the Corporation are altered as aforesaid, the Secretary of State may, with the approval of the Treasury, make, out of moneys provided by Parliament to the Corporation in the year beginning on the first day of April nineteen hundred and forty-four and in each or any of the succeeding nineteen years, a payment not exceeding thirty thousand pounds, either by way of grant or by way of loan and on such terms as may be agreed between the Secretary of State and the Corporation with the approval of the Treasury.”

(iv) subsection (3) shall have effect as if paragraph (a) were omitted and as if in paragraph (c) for the reference to the year nineteen hundred and fifty-eight there were substituted a reference to the year nineteen hundred and sixty-three ;

(c) in section three, for references to the Agricultural Wages (Regulation) Act, 1924, to the Act of 1924, and to subsection (3) of section two of that Act, there shall be substituted respectively references to the [1 Edw. 8 & 1 Geo. 6. c. 53.] Agricultural Wages (Regulation) (Scotland) Act, 1937, to the Act of 1937, and to subsection (6) of section two of that Act;

(d) for section five the following section shall be substituted :—

“5 Section sixteen of the Agriculture Act, 1937, as amended by section three of the Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1941, shall have effect as if after the words ' the supply of water thereto ' there were inserted the words' or to owners or occupiers of dwelling houses occupied or usually occupied in connection with, or by persons employed in connection with, such land in respect of expenditure on the provision of a supply of water for domestic purposes to such dwelling houses '.”