Agriculture (Emergency Payments) Act 1947

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Agriculture (Emergency Payments) Act, 1947

(10 & 11 Geo. 6.) CHAPTER 32.

An Act to authorise the making out of moneys provided by Parliament of acreage payments in respect of crops grown in the year nineteen hundred and forty-seven on land affected by abnormal flooding; to amend the Hill Farming Act, 1946, as respects subsidy payments for sheep; and to authorise the making of advances in respect of such subsidy payments for the years nineteen hundred and forty-eight and nineteen hundred and forty-nine.

[18th July 1947]

Be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Acreage payments where cropping affected by abnormal floods.

Acreage payments where cropping affected by abnormal floods.

S-1 Acreage payments in respect of crops affected by abnormal floods.

1 Acreage payments in respect of crops affected by abnormal floods.

(1) The Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries (hereafter in this section referred to as ‘the Minister’) may, in accordance with the provisions of a scheme made by him under this section with the approval of the Treasury (hereafter in this section referred to as ‘the scheme’), make out of moneys provide by Parliament payments in respect of the growing in the year nineteen hundred and forty-seven of a commercial crop of any description specified in the scheme, in any case where the Minister is satisfied—

(a ) that by reason of abnormal flooding the growing of the crop in question on the land on which it is to be grown is attended by abnormal risk of loss;

(b ) that apart from the flooding the said land would have been used for the growing of crops in the year nineteen hundred and forty-seven;

(c ) that in the circumstances the growing of the crop in question is an appropriate use of the said land;

and as to such other matters as may be specified in the scheme.

(2) Payments under this section shall be made by reference to the area on which a crop is grown, and shall be at such rate as may be specified in the scheme; and the scheme may specify different rates in relation to different crops, or in relation to different purposes for which a crop is grown.

(3) A payment under this section shall be made to the person who at the time when the crop in question was sown or planted on the land in question was the occupier of that land:

Provided that where before the payment is made the said person has died or any other event (other than the execution of an assignment) has occurred whereby debts accruing due to the said person at the said time would be claimable by some other person, the payment may be made to that other person.

(4) The scheme may make provision—

(a ) as to the time within which and the manner in which applications for payments under this section are to be made;

(b ) for the reduction or withholding of payments, and the recovery of payments made, where a crop is damaged by negligence in cultivation or harvesting;

(c ) for disregarding a crop where the total area on which it is grown does not exceed one tenth of an acre, or such smaller area as may be specified in the scheme, and for disregarding, in calculating the area on which a crop is grown, any fraction of an acre less than one tenth, or such smaller fraction as may be so specified;

(d ) for the withholding of payments where the aggregate of the payments under the scheme in respect of the land worked as a unit by any person would be less than one pound.

(5) The scheme may be varied by order of the...

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