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Textual Amendments
F1S. 1 repealed (22.7.2004) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), Sch. 1 Pt. 2 Group 1
Textual Amendments
F2S. 2 repealed (S.) by Agricultural Holdings (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 1983 (c. 46, SIF 2:3), s. 6, Sch. 2 and (E.W.) by Agricultural Holdings Act 1984 (c. 41), s. 10(2), Sch. 4
Textual Amendments
F3S. 3 repealed by Agricultural Holdings (Notices to Quit) Act 1977 (c. 12, SIF 2:3), s. 13, Sch. 2 (subject to a saving in s. 14 in relation to notices to quit given before 7.4.1978) and expressed to be repealed (S.) (25.9.1991) by Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 1991 (c. 55, SIF 2:3), ss. 88, 89(2), Sch. 13 PartI (with s. 45(3), Sch. 12 paras. 1, 3)
Textual Amendments
The functions conferred on the Minister in relation to Agricultural Land Tribunals by section seventy-three of the Act of 1947 shall be exercisable by the Lord Chancellor and not by the Minister, so however that the duty of providing the said Tribunals with the necessary officers and servants and of paying salaries, fees and allowances shall remain with the Minister.
(1),(2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F5
(3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F6
(4),(5). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F7
Textual Amendments
F5S. 6(1)(2) repealed with savings by Succession (Scotland) Act 1964 (c. 41), s. 34(2), Sch. 3
Textual Amendments
F8S. 7 repealed by Weeds Act 1959 (c. 54), Sch.
(1)The enactments specified in Part I of the First Schedule to this Act (being enactments applying to England and Wales) F9... shall have effect subject to the amendments specified in that Schedule, being minor amendments or amendments consequential on the foregoing provisions of this Act.
(2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F10
Textual Amendments
F9Words in s. 8(1) repealed (22.7.2004) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), Sch. 1 Pt. 2 Group 1
F10S. 8(2) repealed by House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 (c. 24, SIF 89), s. 10(2), Sch. 3
(1)In this Act the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them respectively, that is to say —
“Act of 1947” means the M1Agriculture Act, 1947;
“Act of 1948” means the M2Agricultural Holdings Act, 1948;
“agricultural holding”, . . . F11as respects Scotland has the meaning assigned to it by section one of the Scottish Act of 1949;
F12...
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“Land Court” means the Scottish Land Court;
“landlord” and “tenant”, . . . F11as respects Scotland have the meanings assigned to them by section ninety-three of the Scottish Act of 1949;
“lease”, as respects Scotland, means a letting of land for a term of years, or for lives, or for lives and years, or from year to year;
“the Minister” means the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food;
“Scottish Act of 1948” means the M3Agriculture (Scotland) Act, 1948;
“Scottish Act of 1949” means the M4Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act, 1949.
(2)References in this Act to any enactment shall be construed, except where the context otherwise requires, as references to that exactment as amended by or under any other enactment, including this Act.
Textual Amendments
F11Words repealed by Agricultural Holdings Act 1986 (c. 5, SIF 2:3), ss. 99, 101, Sch. 13 para. 3, Sch. 15 Pt. 1
F12Words in s. 9(1) repealed (22.7.2004) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), Sch. 1 Pt. 2 Group 1
Marginal Citations
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F14(2). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F15
(4)The repeal by virtue of this Act of provisions contained in Part II of the Scottish Act of 1948 shall not affect the operation of section thirty-five of that Act (in relation to which certain of those provisions have effect for the purposes of special directions to secure production).
(5)The repeal by virtue of this Act of section seventy-one of the Scottish Act of 1948 shall not affect the operation of subsection (6) of section twenty-one of the M5Crofters (Scotland) Act, 1955 (which applies the provisions of the said section seventy-one to the reference to the Land Court of certain proposals of the Crofters Commission) or the power of the Secretary of State to make regulations under the said section as so applied.
(6). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F16
(7)The transitional provisions set out in the Fourth Schedule to this Act shall have effect.
Textual Amendments
F13S. 10(1) repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1973 (c. 39), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. VIII
F14S. 10(2) repealed (22.7.2004) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), Sch. 1 Pt. 2 Group 1
F15S. 10(3) repealed (with saving) by Mineral Workings Act 1985 (c. 12, SIF 86), ss. 4(1)(7), 10, Sch. 2
F16S. 10(6) repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1973 (c. 39), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. VIII
Marginal Citations
(1)This Act may be cited as the Agriculture Act, 1958.
(2)This Act . . . F17 shall not extend to Northern Ireland.
Textual Amendments
F17Words repealed by House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 (c. 24, SIF 89), s. 10(2), Sch. 3
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