Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1950
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1950 c. 17 |
| Year | 1950 |
Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act , 1950
(14 Geo. 6) CHAPTER 17
An Act to authorise the payment out of moneys provided by Parliament of grants in respect of petrol-driven machines used in connection with agriculture and of contributions towards costs of providing fertilisers used for agricultural land; and for purposes connected therewith.
[28th July 1950]
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:—
Grants for petrol-driven machines used for agricultural operations
1 Schemes for making grants for petrol-driven machines used for agricultural operations.
(1) The appropriate Minister may, in accordance with a scheme made by him with the approval of the Treasury, make out of moneys provided by Parliament grants in respect of any petrol-driven machine used for agricultural operations in the United Kingdom, payable to the owner of the machine.
(2) A scheme under this section may provide for different rates of grants in different cases and make the payment of grants subject to any conditions and, in particular, may—
(a ) specify the kinds of machines in respect of which grants may be made and make different provision for different kinds of machines;
(b ) make grants conditional upon machines being put, or not being put, to specified uses and, in particular, prohibit grants in respect of machines used in connection with land of a specified kind;
(c ) provide for securing that no grant shall be made unless application therefor is made within the time and in the manner provided by the scheme.
(3) In this section the expression ‘petrol-driven machine’ means any machine (including, in particular, an agricultural tractor) in which hydrocarbon oils (as defined in section two of the Finance Act, 1928) which are light oils (as so defined) are used either as the main fuel or as a subsidiary fuel.
(4) A person in the possession of a machine by virtue of a hire-purchase agreement (as defined in the Hire-Purchase Act, 1938) shall for the purposes of this section be treated as the owner of the machine.
In the application of this subsection to Scotland a reference to a contract to which the Hire Purchase and Small Debt (Scotland) Act, 1932, applies, or would apply if the limitation as to value contained in section one of that Act were omitted, shall be substituted for the reference to a hire-purchase agreement.
Subsidies for use of fertilisers
2 Schemes for subsidising use of fertilisers.
(1) The appropriate Minister may, in accordance with a scheme made by him with the approval of the Treasury, make out of moneys provided by Parliament contributions towards the costs incurred by an occupier of agricultural land in the United Kingdom in acquiring and transporting fertilisers used on that land when—
(a ) it is under grass; or
(b ) it has been ploughed up from grass.
(2) Contributions shall not exceed—
(a ) in the case of land under grass, one-third of the said costs; and
(b ) in the case of land ploughed up from grass, two-thirds of the said costs.
(3) A scheme under this section may restrict the amount of contributions in any manner and make the payment of contributions subject to any conditions, and may, in particular—
(a ) specify the kinds of fertilisers and the kinds of agricultural land in respect of which contributions may be made, and make different provision for different kinds of fertilisers and for different kinds of agricultural land;
(b ) limit contributions to a specified sum to the acre;
(c ) provide that where, in any agricultural unit defined by the scheme, the land of a specified kind on which...
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