Hill Farming Act 1946

40 Application to Northern" Ireland

(1) This Act shall, in its application to Northern Ireland, have effect subject to the modifications specified in the succeeding provisions of this section.

(2) The burning of heather or grass shall not be treated as an improvement for the purposes of this Act.

(3) Subsection (5) of section one shall have effect as if the reference therein to public moneys included a reference to moneys provided by the Parliament of Northern Ireland.

(4) The reference in subsection (3) of section five to the Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act, 1919, shall be construed as a reference to that Act as amended by any Act of the Parliament of Northern Ireland.

(5) For section eleven there shall be substituted the following section :—

“11 The [45 & 46 Vict. c. 38.] Settled Land Act, 1882, as amended by any subsequent enactment, shall have effect as if the improvements enumerated in section twenty-five thereof (being improvements on which capital trust money may be expended) included any operation which is to be treated as an improvement for the purposes of, this Act, and which is of a kind prescribed by regulations made by the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries as being of a permanent character.”

(6) Section thirty-four shall have effect as if references therein to an officer of the appropriate Minister authorised as therein mentioned by general or special directions given by him included references to an officer of the Ministry of Agriculture for Northern Ireland authorised to act under that section by general or special directions given by that Ministry on behalf of the appropriate Minister.

(7) The expression " summary conviction " means conviction subject to, and in accordance with, the [14 & 15 Vict. c. 93.] Petty Sessions (Ireland) Act, 1851, and any Act (including any Act of the Parliament of Northern Ireland) amending that Act.