Article 5 Transitional provisions relating to contributions

Until a payment of such contributions as are mentioned in section 52(2)(b) of the the Act of 1970 (regulations empowering the Minister to adjust contributions payable to a smallholdings authority) is made to a new county council to whom the entitlement to such contributions has been transferred under the Act from the council of a county or county borough, in relation to the power conferred on the Ministers by section 52(2)(d) of that Act to make regulations enabling the Minister to require a smallholdings authority to furnish the Minister with any particulars required by him, and in relation to any regulations so made before 1st April 1974, a payment of contributions made before 1st April 1974 to the council of a county or county borough shall be treated for the purposes of section 52(2)(d) and any such regulations as a payment of contributions to the new county council which on 1st April 1974 became entitled under the Act to the contributions previously payable to the council of the county or county borough.