http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1976/55/section/4Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976An Act to dissolve the Sugar Board; to provide for increasing the amount which may be advanced under section 2 of the Agricultural Mortgage Corporation Act 1956; to amend the provisions of Part I of the Agriculture Act 1967 relating to the Meat and Livestock Commission and their committees; to provide for the making of grants in connection with proficiency tests in crafts related to agriculture; to authorise measures to restrict the growing of male hop plants; to make further provision for obtaining agricultural statistics; to provide for the adaptation of certain enactments to metric units; to provide for regulating the exportation of animals in the interests of their welfare; to make further provision for preventing the transmission of disease from wild life to animals and poultry; to amend the law relating to agricultural holdings; to amend section 29(4) of the Agriculture Act 1970; and for purposes connected with those matters1976-11-15texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2025-07-22Expert Participation2025-06-16 Part I41This section applies to any body of persons the activities of which include the taking of measures for some or all of the following purposes, namely—adevising, formulating and promoting proficiency tests in crafts related to agriculture in England and Wales, formulating standards for those tests, and revising those tests and standards from time to time;bco-ordinating the activities of bodies carrying out such proficiency tests in England or Wales, and monitoring the methods and standards of such bodies in carrying out those tests; andcmaking and maintaining arrangements for obtaining and evaluating data about the use and results of such proficiency tests in England and Wales ...2The Minister may with the approval of the Treasury make payments by way of grant to any body to which this section applies for use in or towards meeting expenditure incurred or to be incurred by the body for or in connection with any purpose mentioned in subsection (1) above.3A payment under this section may be made on such conditions as the Minister thinks fit to impose, including conditions for restricting the purposes for which it can be used.4If, in the case of any payment made under this section, it appears to the Minister—athat the payment or any part of it has not been used for the purpose for which it was made; orbthat, as regards the payment or any part of it, any condition on which the payment was made has not been complied with in a material respect,he may on demand recover an amount equal to the payment or that part of it, as the case may be.5In this section “agriculture” includes horticulture and forestry.Words in s. 4(1)(c) repealed (25.6.2013) by Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (c. 24), s. 103(3), Sch. 20 para. 2; S.I. 2013/1455, Sch. 1 (with art. 4(2))