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Corn Production Acts (Repeal) Act 1921

As Enacted Cited authorities 4 Cited in Amendments 6 Related
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JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1921 c. 48
Year1921


Corn Production Acts (Repeal) Act, 1921

(11 & 12 Geo. 5.) CHAPTER 48.

An Act to repeal the Corn Production Acts, 1917 and 1920, to make provision as to payments under those Acts in respect of the crops of the current year, to provide funds for agricultural development, to promote the formation of joint conciliation committees for the industry of agriculture, and to make certain consequential amendments in section twelve, and to repeal subsection (1) of section fifteen of the Agriculture Act, 1920.

[19th August 1921]

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:—

S-1 Repeal of Corn Production Acts, 7 & 8 Geo. 5. c. 46. 10 & 11 Geo. 5. c. 76, Part I.

1 Repeal of Corn Production Acts, 7 & 8 Geo. 5. c. 46. 10 & 11 Geo. 5. c. 76, Part I.

1. The Corn Production Acts, 1917 and 1920, are hereby repealed as from the first day of October, nineteen hundred and twenty-one:

Provided that, without prejudice to the general application of section thirty-eight of the Interpretation Act, 1889, with regard to the effect of repeals—

a ) This repeal shall not prejudice or affect the power to take any proceedings in relation to payments in respect of the wheat and oats of the year nineteen hundred and twenty-one or such of the powers mentioned in section nine of the Agriculture Act, 1920, as are excepted from the operation of that section;
b ) Where on the thirtieth day of September nineteen hundred and twenty-one, any legal proceedings are pending in England and Wales to which the Agricultural Wages Board or a district wages committee are parties, the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries shall be substituted in those proceedings for the Board or committee as the case may be, and the proceedings shall not abate by reason of the substitution; and
c ) All powers with respect to the destruction of injurious weeds shall continue to be exerciseable as if such of the provisions of the Corn Production Acts, 1917 and 1920, as are specified in the Schedule to this Act had not been repealed but were continued in force as set out with the necessary modifications in the said schedule and
d ) The body of persons constituted with respect to any area by the Board of Agriculture for Scotland under subsection (2) of section eleven of the Corn Production Act, 1917, shall, notwithstanding this repeal, continue to exercise the powers and duties of the Agricultural Committees for that area under the Agriculture Act, 1920, and under any other enactment, unless and until His Majesty by Order in Council directs that such powers and duties shall be exercised by the Board of Agriculture for Scotland, which direction it shall be lawful for His Majesty to give, and the Board shall continue to have power to constitute such bodies: Provided that before any Order in Council is made under this section a draft thereof shall be laid before each House of Parliament for not less than thirty days on which such House is sitting, and unless both Houses by resolution approve of such draft no further proceedings shall be taken thereon without prejudice to the making of a new draft Order.
S-2 Payments in respect of corps of 1921.

2 Payments in respect of corps of 1921.

2. The sums to be paid under section one of the Corn Production Act, 1917, to the occupier of land in Great Britain in respect of each acre on which he proves in manner required by that section that wheat or oats have been produced in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-one, shall, subject to the provisoes to that section, be the sums of three pounds and four pounds respectively instead of sums calculated in manner provided by the Corn Production Acts, 1917 and 1920, and shall be payable on the first day of January, nineteen hundred and twenty-two.

S-3 Provision of funds for agricultural development.

3 Provision of funds for agricultural development.

3. For the purpose of providing a special fund for promoting agricultural development, including the establishment of scholarships and maintenance grants for the sons and daughters of agricultural workmen and others, there shall, during the financial year ending on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament the sum of one Minion pounds.

Out of the sum so to be paid as aforesaid the sum of eight hundred and fifty thousand pounds shall be paid to the Development Fund to be applied for the purpose of aiding and developing agriculture in England and Wales in the manner specified in paragraph (a ) of subsection (1) of section one of the Development and Road Improvement Funds Act, 1909, other than the extension of the provision of small holdings, and the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand pounds shall be paid to the Agriculture (Scotland) Fund to be applied by the Board of Agriculture for Scotland for the like purpose in Scotland.

S-4 Establishment of voluntary joint councils of employers and workmen in agriculture.

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