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| You are here: BAILII >> Databases >> Northern Irish Legislation >> MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE (IN THIS ACT REFERRED TO AS ""THE MINISTER'') SHALL ESTABLISH A GENERAL AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE TO ADVISE HIM ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF THIS ACT, TOGETHER WITH SUCH OTHER AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEES AS THE MINISTER MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK NECESSARY TO ADVISE HIM ON SUCH OTHER MATTERS, INCLUDING AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF LIVESTOCK, AS HE MAY THINK PROPER. B>(2) THE MINISTER SHALL CONSULT SUCH ORGANISATION AS APPEARS TO HIM TO REPRESENT THE INTERESTS OF FARMERS BEFORE APPOINTING THE GENERAL AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE AFORESAID, AND SHALL APPOINT AS MEMBERS OF OTHER AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEES SUCH PERSONS AS APPEAR TO HIM, AFTER CONSULTATION WITH SUCH ORGANISATION AND WITH THE INTERESTS CONCERNED, TO BE BEST QUALIFIED TO ADVISE ON THE MATTERS TO BE REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEES. 6 EDUCATION AND RESEARCH | ||
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rovision for education and instruction, scholarships and undertaking of
research. A> 5. {1} (1) The Ministry may provide, maintain and equip schools,
colleges and other institutions together with land and buildings ancillary
thereto for the purposes of instructing persons in agriculture, horticulture
and kindred subjects, including forestry, market gardening, dairy or fruit
farming, apiculture, the management of farms and farm households, the use of
farm machinery and equipment, farm accounts, records and statistics, the
raising, safeguarding or marketing of livestock, poultry or other farm produce
whatsoever or in agricultural botany, biology, zoology, chemistry,
biochemistry, genetics, mechanics, economics and such other subjects as appear
to the Ministry to conduce to a knowledge of the science and practice of
agriculture or horticulture. B>(2) The Ministry, after considering any
recommendations made by any county committee of agriculture{2}, may either
itself provide or arrange for the provision by other persons of lectures and
classes (including displays of instructional apparatus and educational
exhibits and experimental and demonstration plots) in any of the subjects
referred to in the preceding sub-section. B>[{3}(2A) Without prejudice to
sub-sections (1) and (2), the Ministry may, with the approval of the Ministry
of Finance, either itself provide or arrange for the provision by other
persons of courses of instruction and training and other facilities (which may
include residential accommodation) for persons engaged or employed, or
proposing to become engaged or employed, in activities in agriculture. B>(2B)
The Ministry may, with the approval of the Ministry of Finance, make schemes
subject to negative resolution providing for the payment by the Ministry of
sums by way of grant to or in respect of persons who participate in any course
provided under sub-section (2A) or who provide such a course or other
facilities.] B>(3) The Ministry may, with the approval of the Ministry of
Finance, make schemes providing for the payment by the Ministry of sums by way
of scholarships for the purposes of enabling or assisting persons to secure
instruction (whether at a school, college or other institution provided or
maintained by the Ministry or at any university or other institution or
selected farm or other establishment in Northern Ireland or elsewhere) or to
undertake research in any subject or course of subjects specified in such
schemes. B>(4){4} The Ministry may either itself undertake research in any
branch of agricultural, horticultural or veterinary science including research
in any of the subjects referred to in sub-section (1) of this section and
research for the purposes of founding any new or improved species of plant or
animal life or of combating any pest, vermin or disease affecting livestock,
poultry or crops or may make advances, by way of grant or by way of loan or
partly by way of grant and partly by way of loan, upon such terms and subject
to such conditions as the Ministry, with the approval of the Ministry of
Finance, thinks fit, to any person or body for the purposes of any such
research. 6 Agricultural Development >Grants for the improvement of land, etc.
A> 6. (1) The Ministry may, with the approval of the Ministry of Finance, make
schemes providing for the payment, on such terms and subject to such
conditions as are mentioned in the respective schemes, of grants to occupiers
of agricultural land for all or any of the following purposes: N>>( a ){5} the
improvement or reclamation of land used or to be used for agricultural
purposes including the drainage of such land; C >>( b ) the supply of water to
agricultural land and agricultural buildings not being dwelling-houses and,
where water of suitable purity for domestic use is available, to
dwelling-houses occupied as farmhouses or by agricultural workers; C >>( c )
the purchase and installation of machines for the generation of electricity
for use in agricultural buildings and dwelling-houses on farms to which a
supply of electricity is not, in the opinion of the Ministry, likely to be
made available from a distributing main; C >>( d ) the provision of proper
means of access or egress to and from agricultural land, agricultural
buildings or turf bogs; C >>( e ) the construction or reconditioning of flax
dams; or C >>( f ) any other purpose (including the provision of agricultural
buildings not being dwelling-houses) which the Ministry is satisfied will
increase the fertility of any agricultural land or the productive capacity of
any farm or is necessary for the more efficient working of any farm. B>(2){6}
Any scheme made under this section, and any subsequent scheme amending a
scheme so made, shall be laid before each House of Parliament, and if either
House of Parliament within the next statutory period on which it has sat after
the scheme is laid before it, resolves that the scheme shall be annulled, the
scheme shall thereupon cease to have effect, but without prejudice to anything
done thereunder or to the making of a new scheme. >Provision of goods and
services. A> 7. (1) For the purpose of promoting efficiency in agriculture or
of facilitating the production of food the Ministry may, with the approval of
the Ministry of Finance, make goods and services (including advisory services)
available to persons farming agricultural land or marketing or distributing
agricultural produce and may with the like approval make advisory services
available to other persons: B>Provided that in making goods available under
this section the Ministry shall as far as practicable use such normal trade
facilities as appear to it to be appropriate. <1966 c.42
[{9}(4) The Department may, and
shall be deemed always to have had power to, impose such charges as it may,
with the consent of the Department of Finance, determine in respect of
applications made to it for assistance and of services rendered by it under
this section.] N>> S.10 rep. by 1958 c.13 (NI) s.54 sch.5 >Propagation of new
kinds of plants and crops. A> 11. (1) The Ministry may either itself propagate
or arrange for the propagation by other persons of new species or varieties of
any plant or crop. B>(2) An arrangement made by the Ministry with any person
for the propagation by that person of any species or variety of plant or crop
may provide for the payment by the Ministry, on such terms and subject to such
conditions as the Ministry, with the approval of the Ministry of Finance, may
think fit, of the expenses incurred by that person in connection with the
arrangement. >Miscellaneous grants for agricultural purposes. A> 12. The
Ministry may, with the approval of the Ministry of Finance, make grants on
such terms and subject to such conditions and for such purposes as the
Ministry thinks proper C >>( a ) to any society established for the purpose of
holding agricultural, horticultural, poultry, farm produce and industrial
shows, displays or exhibitions, and such other shows, displays, exhibitions
and competitions as the Ministry may from time to time determine; and C >>( b
) to any association, institution or club, not being an association,
institution or club operated for profit, which has amongst its objects the
development of agriculture, horticulture or apiculture or of any branch
thereof or the welfare or training of farmers or agricultural workers or of
women whose work is associated with farming activities. >General provisions as
to exercise of powers under this Part of this Act. A> 13. {10} (1) The powers
exercisable by the Ministry under or by virtue of any provision contained in
this Part of this Act may be exercised in addition to any other power
conferred on the Ministry under or by virtue of any other enactment. B>(2)
Except in so far as this Part of this Act otherwise provides, any power
conferred thereby may be exercised C >>( a ) either in relation to all cases
to which the power extends, or in relation to all those cases subject to
specified exceptions, or in relation to any specified cases or classes of
case; and C >>( b ) so as to make, as respects the cases in relation to which
it is exercised E >> >(i) the full provision to which the power extends or any
less provision (whether by way of exception or otherwise); E >>> (ii) the same
provision for all cases in relation to which the power is exercised or
different provision for different cases or classes of case, or different
provision as respects the same case or class of case for different purposes of
this Act; E > < >(iii) any such provision either unconditionally or subject to
any specified condition. B>(3) Without prejudice to any specific provision in
this Part of this Act, any scheme or arrangement made under this Part of
this Act may contain such incidental or supplemental provisions as appear to
the Ministry to be expedient for the purposes thereof. B>(4) Any scheme or
arrangement made by the Ministry under and in accordance with any provision
contained in this Part of this Act may be varied, modified or revoked by a
subsequent scheme or arrangement (as the case may be) made in like manner. 4P
ART II{11} ]
(3) The Ministry shall, on the request of any person who
(a)claims by virtue of any conacre, agistment or other agreement any right to
use any agricultural land as such; or
(b)satisfies the Ministry that he is the owner of any agricultural land or of
any estate or interest therein or that an estate or interest therein may vest
in him on or at any time subsequent to the determination of the
estate or interest of the occupier therein,
(4) If while an improvement notice is in force in relation to any
agricultural land additional land becomes occupied by the same occupier and is
farmed in conjunction therewith the notice shall, if the Ministry so
determines, extend by virtue of such determination to the additional land and
shall be registered accordingly [by the Ministry pursuant to the provisions of
Part X of the Land Registration Act (Northern Ireland) 1970]:
Provided that nothing in this or the next succeeding sub-section shall be
construed as imposing on any occupier any liability with respect to the
additional land on a date before the commencement of his occupation thereof.
(5) For the purposes of giving effect to the last preceding sub-section
references in this Act to the land to which an improvement notice relates
shall be construed as including references to any additional land to which the
notice extends by virtue of a determination of the Ministry under that
sub-section; and references in this Act to the service of an improvement
notice shall be construed as references to the date on which the notice was
originally served as well in relation to such additional land as in relation
to any other land to which the notice relates.
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