6 Interpretation. E+W

(1) In this Act—

• “the appropriate Minister” means, in relation to England, the [F1 Secretary of State] and, in relation to Wales, the Secretary of State;

• “land” includes messuages. tenements and hereditaments, houses and buildings of any tenure;

• “livestock” includes creatures kept for any purpose;

• “owner” means, in relation to land, a person, other than a mortgagee not in possession, who is for the time being entitled to dispose of the fee simple of the land, and includes also a person holding, or entitled to the rents and profits of, the land under a lease or agreement;

• “the prescribed sum” means the prescribed sum within the meaning of [F2 section 32 of the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 (£1,000 or other sum substituted by order under section 143(1) of that Act)]; and

• “relevant land” in the case of any owner or occupier of land used for agriculture, means the aggregate of—

(a) the land owned or occupied by him which is comprised in any agricultural unit; and

(b) any other land owned or occupied by him which is either—

(i) used for forestry; or

(ii) not used for any purpose, but capable of use for agriculture or forestry,

but which, if used as agricultural land by the occupier of that agricultural unit, would be comprised in that unit.

(2) Section 109 of the M1 Agriculture Act 1947 (interpretation) shall have effect for the purposes of this Act as it has effect for the purposes of that Act except that the definition of “livestock” shall be omitted from subsection (3).

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in s. 6(1) substituted (27.3.2002) by S.I. 2002/794, art. 5(1), Sch. 1 para. 20

F2 Words substituted by Magistrates' Courts Act 1980 (c. 43, SIF 82), s.154, Sch. 7 para. 182

Marginal Citations

M1 1947 c. 48.