Section 31 Application to Scotland.

for any reference to the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries there shall be substituted a reference to the Secretary of State;

for references to the M1Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923, and to a contract of tenancy within the meaning of that Act, there shall be respectively substituted references to the M2Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Acts, 1923 and 1931, and to a lease within the meaning of those Acts;

for any reference to the War Agricultural Executive Committee for a county or a county borough there shall be substituted a reference to the Agricultural Executive Committee for any area to which the Secretary of State has delegated any of his powers under regulations made under the M3Emergency Powers (Defence) Act, 1939;

for any reference to such a council as is mentioned in section twenty-one of the M4Land Settlement (Facilities) Act, 1919, there shall be substituted a reference to a local authority within the meaning of section twenty-two of the M5Land Settlement (Scotland) Act, 1919;

the expression “owner” has the like meaning as in the M6Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1897,