Overseas Resources Development Act 1951

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1951 c. 20


Overseas Resources Development Act, 1951

(14 & 15 Geo. 6) CHAPTER 20

An Act to transfer to the Secretary of State responsibility for the Overseas Food Corporation; to amend the law regulating the functions, constitution and finances of that Corporation; to transfer to the Minister of Food certain rights of that Corporation in relation to the Queensland-British Food Corporation; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.

[21st March 1951]

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 Transfer to Secretary of State of responsibility for Overseas Food Corporation.

1 Transfer to Secretary of State of responsibility for Overseas Food Corporation.

(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the functions of the Minister of Food under the Overseas Resources Development Act, 1948 (in this Act referred to as ‘the principal Act’) shall be transferred to the Secretary of State at the commencement of this Act.

(2) Subsection (2) of section six of the principal Act (which defines the expression ‘the responsible Minister’ in relation to the Colonial Development Corporation and the Overseas Food Corporation) shall cease to have effect, and for any reference in the said Act to the responsible Minister there shall be substituted a reference to the Secretary of State.

(3) References to the Minister of Food in any regulation, scheme, deed, agreement or other instrument affecting the Overseas Food Corporation shall, so far as necessary for the purpose or in consequence of the foregoing provisions of this section, be construed as references to the Secretary of State; and any regulation, direction, determination, appointment or other thing made, given or done by the Minister of Food before the commencement of this Act in relation to the said Corporation shall have effect as if made, given or done by the Secretary of State.

(4) The foregoing provisions of this section shall not affect any obligations or rights of the Minister of Food under section five of the principal Act (which made provision for the transfer to the Overseas Food Corporation of certain assets and liabilities of that Minister); and in relation to the financial year ending immediately before the commencement of this Act section eighteen of that Act (which relates to accounting for receipts of the responsible Minister under that Act) shall have effect as originally enacted and not as amended by those provisions.

S-2 Functions and constitution of Overseas Food Corporation.

2 Functions and constitution of Overseas Food Corporation.

(1) The Overseas Food Corporation shall be charged with the duty of securing the investigation, formulation and carrying out of projects for...

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