Agriculture Act 1967

42Improvement of hill farming land subject to rights of common.

(1)The improvements referred to in section 12 of the [1946 c. 73.] Hill Farming Act 1946 (which authorises the Minister to carry out improvements for the benefit of hill farming land subject to rights of common) shall include (in addition to improvements within the meaning of that Act) any improvements specified in a scheme under the foregoing provisions of this Part of this Act.

(2)Section 12(13) of the Hill Farming Act 1946 (under which the net cost of work done under that section is to be brought into account for the purposes of the limit on grants in that Act) shall not apply in relation to any improvement carried out after the coming into force of this section but any sum which, but for this subsection, would have been so brought into account shall be brought into account as if it were a grant made under the last foregoing section.