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AGRICULTURAL RETURNS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1939 - SECT 3

Interpretation.

3.(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, the following
expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them, that is to say:

"Agricultural land" includes forest land, bog land, land used as grazing [or
for cropping], meadow or pasture land or orchard, and land used wholly or
mainly for the purpose of the trade or business of a market-gardener,
nurseryman or horticulturist, or for the purpose of breeding or keeping
poultry;

["Enactment" includes a provision in any Act (whether public general, local or
private) of the Parliament of Northern Ireland or of the Parliament of the
United Kingdom and a provision in any Order in Council, order, regulation,
rule, bye-law, scheme or other instrument made under or by virtue of any such
Act;]

"Occupier" includes any person who, by virtue of any contract, or by virtue of
any agreement, whether express or implied, is, on the prescribed day, entitled
to use, for his own benefit, any land as agricultural land [and, in relation
to any land granted in conacre, includes the person who granted the land in
conacre but does not include the person to whom it is so granted];

definition rep. by 1949 c.2 (NI) s.44 sch.3

"Statutory period" means . . .

Definition in 1954 c.33 (NI) s.41(2) substituted by 1979 NI12 art.10

Subs.(2)(3) rep. by SLR 1980

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