Section 4 Supplemental provisions.

This Act may be cited as the Farm Land and Rural Development Act 1988.

It is hereby declared that any function conferred on a Minister of the Crown by or under section 1 or 2 of this Act is to be treated as a function connected with agriculture for the purposes of section 17 of the M1Agriculture Act 1986 (duty to balance interests when exercising functions connected with agriculture).

An Order in Council under paragraph 1(1)(b) of Schedule 1 to the M2Northern Ireland Act 1974 (exercise of legislative functions for Northern Ireland) which states that it is made only for purposes corresponding to the purposes of section 1 above—

Sections 1 to 3 above do not extend to Northern Ireland.