Statutory Instruments
AGRICULTURE
Made
21st March 1949
Laid before Parliament
25th March 1949
Coming into Operation
1st April 1949
In pursuance of subsection (4) of section 1 of the Hill Farming Act, 1946, the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries and the Secretary of State for Scotland hereby make the following Order:-
1. In paragraph 2 of the First Schedule to the said Act before the word "Alteration" there shall be inserted the word "Erection,", and the kinds of operations specified in the said Schedule shall include the erection of farm houses accordingly.
2. This Order may be cited as the Hill Farming Improvements Order, 1949, and shall come into operation on the 1st day of April, 1949.
In witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries is hereunto affixed this twenty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and forty-nine.
L.S.
T. Williams
Minister
Given under the Seal of the Secretary of State for Scotland this twenty-first day of March, nineteen hundred and forty-nine.
L.S.
Arthur Woodburn
Secretary of State
We approve
Wm. Hannan
Joseph Henderson
Two of the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury
The Hill Farming Act, 1946, provides for the making of grants for the improvement of hill farming land. The improvements for which grants may be made are set out in the First Schedule to the Act. This Order adds to the improvements the erection of new farm houses.