Corn Production Acts (Repeal) Act 1921
Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
Citation | 1921 c. 48,11 & 12 Geo. 5 c. 48 |
Year | 1921 |
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:—
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 The Corn Production Acts, 1917 and 1920, are hereby repealed as from the first day of October, nineteen hundred and twenty-one: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—
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.
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.
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