Section 1 Amendments as to drainage of agricultural land.

For subsection (1) of section fifteen of the M1Agriculture (Miscellaneous War Provisions) Act, 1940, there shall be substituted the following subsection—

“(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 land.—

(a)

has been submitted by the owner or occupier of the land to the War Agricultural Executive Committee for the county or county borough in which the land is situated; and

(b)

has been approved for the purposes of this section by that Committee;

the Minister may, out of the 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.”

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