http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1949/548/madeThe Hill Farming Improvements Order 1949WestlawKing's Printer of Acts of Parliament2011-04-05AGRICULTURE The Hill Farming Act, 1946, provides for the making of grants for the improvement of hill farming land. The improvements for which grants may be made are set out in the First Schedule to the Act. This Order adds to the improvements the erection of new farm houses. 1949 No. 548 AGRICULTURE The Hill Farming Improvements Order, 1949 Made 21st March 1949 Laid before Parliament 25th March 1949 Coming into Operation 1st April 1949 In pursuance of subsection (4) of section 1 of the Hill Farming Act, 1946, the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries and the Secretary of State for Scotland hereby make the following Order:— 1 In paragraph 2 of the First Schedule to the said Act before the word “Alteration” there shall be inserted the word “Erection,”, and the kinds of operations specified in the said Schedule shall include the erection of farm houses accordingly. 2 This Order may be cited as the Hill Farming Improvements Order, 1949, and shall come into operation on the 1st day of April, 1949. In witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries is hereunto affixed this twenty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and forty-nine. T. Williams Minister Given under the Seal of the Secretary of State for Scotland this twenty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and forty-nine. Arthur Woodburn Secretary of State We approve Wm. Hannan Joseph Henderson Two of the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury EXPLANATORY NOTE

The Hill Farming Act, 1946, provides for the making of grants for the improvement of hill farming land. The improvements for which grants may be made are set out in the First Schedule to the Act. This Order adds to the improvements the erection of new farm houses.