{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-miscellaneous-war-provisions-act-1940-repealed-5111993/section-31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-miscellaneous-war-provisions-act-1940-repealed-5111993/section-31.json",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  "legislation_title": "Agriculture (Miscellaneous War Provisions) Act 1940 (repealed 5.11.1993)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agriculture-miscellaneous-war-provisions-act-1940-repealed-5111993",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/31",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Application to Scotland.",
  "text": "This Act shall apply to Scotland subject to the following modifications:—\n(1) In this Part of this Act—\n(a) for any reference to the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries there shall be substituted a reference to the Secretary of State;\n(b) for references to the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923, and to a contract of tenancy within the meaning of that Act, there shall be respectively substituted references to the Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Acts, 1923 and 1931, and to a lease within the meaning of those Acts;\n(c) 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 Emergency Powers (Defence) Act, 1939;\n(d) for any reference to such a council as is mentioned in section twenty-one of the Land Settlement (Facilities) Act, 1919, there shall be substituted a reference to a local authority within the meaning of section twenty-two of the Land Settlement (Scotland) Act, 1919;\n(e) the expression “owner” has the like meaning as in the Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1897,\n2), (3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) Part III of this Act shall not apply.\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 30(1), 31(2)(3)(5), 32(2)–(4) repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1973 (c. 39), Sch. 1 Pt. VIII"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1923 c. 10."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1931 c. 44."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1939 c. 62."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M4",
      "text": "1919 c. 59."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M5",
      "text": "1919 c. 97."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M6",
      "text": "1897 c. 38."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/3-4/14/section/31",
    "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."
}