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Agriculture (Amendment) Act 1984

1984 c. 20 · Enacted 24 May 1984 · Extends to United Kingdom

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F1An Act to enable grants under section 64 of the Agriculture Act 1967 towards fulfilling guarantees of bank loans to be made in relation to a wider range of co-operative marketing businesses; and to extend the powers of obtaining information conferred by subsection (1) of section 1 of the Agricultural Statistics Act 1979 and to repeal subsection (5) of that section.[24th May 1984]

Be it enacted by the Queen’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:—

Contents

  1. 1Amendment of Agriculture Act 1967: “co-operative marketing business”.
  2. 2Amendments of Agricultural Statistics Act 1979.
  3. 3Short title, and commencement.

1Amendment of Agriculture Act 1967: “co-operative marketing business”.

(1)

F1In section 64 of the M1Agriculture Act 1967 (grants towards fulfilling guarantees of bank loans to agriculture or horticulture businesses), after subsection (8) there shall be inserted the following subsection:—

(8A)

For the purposes of the definitions in subsection (8) above of “co-operative marketing business” and “co-operative association”, the members of a co-operative association shall be deemed to include the members of any other co-operative association which—

(a)

is a member of the first mentioned association, or

(b)

is deemed to be such a member by virtue of paragraph (a) above or this paragraph

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(2)

This section extends to Northern Ireland.

2Amendments of Agricultural Statistics Act 1979. E+W

(1)

F1In subsection (1) of section 1 of the M1Agricultural Statistics Act 1979, for paragraphs (b) and (c) (power to require information relating to the names and addresses of owners and occupiers and to whether land is let and, if so, at what rent) there shall be substituted the following paragraph:—

(b)

any person who is an owner or occupier of the land or any part of it and the terms on which, and arrangements under which, the land or any part of it is owned, occupied, managed or farmed by any person;

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(2)

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(3)

This section extends to England and Wales only.

3Short title, and commencement.

(1)

F1This Act may be cited as the Agriculture (Amendment) Act 1984.

(2)

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