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THE 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 - SECT 18 

Duration of improvement notices.

18.(1) Where an improvement notice is in force and the Ministry is satisfied
that it is no longer necessary that such improvement notice should continue in
force, the Ministry may cancel the notice either in whole or in part, but the
cancellation of the notice or part thereof shall not affect any direction made
thereunder in so far as such direction is in force immediately before such
cancellation.

(2)... any transfer of any interest in land to which an improvement notice
relates other than a transfer by a testamentary disposition or by operation of
law, whereby some other person becomes the occupier of that land, shall not
affect the continued operation of the notice in relation to that land and
accordingly the notice shall, subject to the provisions of this section,
continue in force in so far as it relates to that land.

(3) So long as an improvement notice continues in force the Ministry shall,
from time to time, review the condition of the land to which the notice
relates, and

(a)a review shall be held under this sub-section as soon as may be after the
expiration of twelve months from the service of the notice and, where one or
more than one review of the notice has already been held under this
sub-section, a further review shall be held as soon as may be after the
expiration of twelve months from the last such review;

(b)the Ministry shall, on any review held under this sub-section, afford to
any person, who, if an improvement notice were being served immediately before
that review, would be entitled to make representations against the service
thereof, a like opportunity of making representations for the cancellation or
modification of the improvement notice under review.

(4) Subject to the foregoing provisions of this section an improvement notice
shall, to the extent to which it has not been cancelled by the Ministry or by
a county court pursuant to the provisions of this Part of this Act, remain in
force for the period of five years occurring next after the service thereof,
so however that, without prejudice to the provisions of sub-section (1) of
section thirty-two of the Interpretation Act, 1889, as applied to Acts of the
Parliament of Northern Ireland by the Interpretation Act, 1921, the Ministry,
notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this sub-section, may, where it is
satisfied that the land to which the improvement notice relates should after
the expiration of such period continue to be, or should at any subsequent time
be, treated as unsatisfactorily farmed, serve, at any time during the two
months immediately preceding such expiration or at any subsequent time, a
further improvement notice or notices relating to the land or any part
thereof. For the removal of doubt it is hereby declared that the provisions of
this Part of this Act relating to the service, duration and effect of
improvement notices and to appeals against such notices shall apply with
respect to every further improvement notice served by the Ministry in
accordance with this sub-section.

(5) The provisions of this Part of this Act relating to the duration of
improvement notices and to the operation of directions given thereunder shall
have effect notwithstanding anything contained in section fifty-five of the
Irish Land Act, 1903, regarding the compulsory sale of certain holdings by the
Ministry of Finance.

Directions to secure good husbandry.

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