{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-miscellaneous-war-provisions-act-1940-repealed-5111993/section-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-miscellaneous-war-provisions-act-1940-repealed-5111993/section-15.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/3-4/14",
  "legislation_title": "Agriculture (Miscellaneous War Provisions) Act 1940 (repealed 5.11.1993)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-miscellaneous-war-provisions-act-1940-repealed-5111993",
  "path": "section/15",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Mole drainage.",
  "text": "(1) Where a scheme for the field drainage of any agricultural land or for the cleansing or other improvement of ditches on any such land or for the supply of water to any such landor to any building used in connection with any such land—\n(a) has been submitted . . . to the War Agricultural Executive Committee for the county or county borough in which the land is situated; and\n(b) has been approved for the purposes of this section by that Committee;\nthe Minister may, out of moneys provided by Parliament, make, towards expenditure incurred by any person in carrying out the scheme, grants of such amounts and subject to such conditions as the Treasury may approve.\n(2) In assessing the amount of any compensation payable to a tenant of agricultural land, whether under the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923, or under custom or agreement, by reason of the improvement of the land by mole drainage works in respect of which a grant has been made under this section, the grant shall be taken into account as if it had been a benefit allowed to the tenant in consideration of his executing the improvement, and the compensation shall be reduced accordingly.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 15(1) repealed, except for the purposes of grants to statutory water undertakers, with saving by Agriculture Act 1970 (c. 40), ss. 29(6)(7), 113(3), Sch. 5 Pt. I and S.I. 1970/1758 *S. 15(2) repealed so far as relating to agricultural holdings with savings by Agricultural Holdings Act 1948 (c. 63), ss. 98–100, Sch. 8"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 15(1) substitued by Agricultural (Miscellaneous War Provisions) (No. 2) Act 1940 (c. 50, SIF 2:1), s. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words inserted by Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1941 (c. 50), s. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words inserted by Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1968 (c. 34), s. 41(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words repealed by Land Drainage Act 1961 (c. 48), Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "S. 15(2) repealed so far as relating to agricultural holdings with savings by Agricultural Holdings Act 1948 (c. 63, SIF 2:3), ss. 98-100, Sch. 8"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1923 c. 9."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Functions of War Agricultural Executive Committees under s. 15 now exercisable by Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (E.) and by Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and Secretary of State jointly (W.): S.I. 1948/187, 209 (Rev. I, pp. 83, 77: 1948 I, pp. 38, 55), 1957/1602 (1957 I, p. 85) and 1969/388"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 15 extended by Agriculture (Small Farmers) Act 1959 (c. 12), s. 2(2)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/3-4/14/section/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:31:23.387659+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}