Agriculture Act 1957 Part IV — Miscellaneous and General

Exchequer payments in aid of schemes for agriculture in Northern Ireland.

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Expenses and receipts of Ministers.

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(1) Any expenses incurred by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food or by a Secretary of State under this Act shall be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament. (2) Any sums received or recovered by the said Minister or a Secretary of State in pursuance of this Act or any order made thereunder shall be paid into the Exchequer.

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General provisions as to interpretation, orders, etc.

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(1) In this Act the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say— “ Act of Parliament ” and “ enactment ” include respectively an Act and an enactment of the Parliament of Northern Ireland; “ agriculture ” has the same meaning as in the Agriculture Act, 1947; “ assets ” includes property and rights. (2) Any power to make an order or regulations under this Act shall be exercisable by statutory instrument. (3) Any power to make an order under this Act shall include power to revoke or vary that order by a subsequent order. (4) References in this Act to any other enactment shall be construed as references thereto as amended, and as including references thereto as extended, by or under any subsequent enactment.

Repeals and transitional provisions.

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(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (2) In Part I of the Agriculture Act, 1947, so far as not repealed by this section, any reference to produce mentioned in the First Schedule to that Act shall be construed as a reference to produce mentioned in the First Schedule to this Act . . . , and any reference to the provisions of the said Part I shall be construed as including a reference to the provisions of Part I of this Act. (3) The period during which orders under subsection (1) of section four of the Agriculture Act, 1947, have effect (being a period which would otherwise expire with the fifth day of August, nineteen hundred and fifty-seven) shall be extended until the commencement of Part I of this Act, and any order in force under that subsection at the commencement of the said Part I shall continue in force and have effect as if made under section one of this Act, and may be revoked or varied accordingly. (4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Short title, commencement and extent.

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(1) This Act may be cited as the Agriculture Act, 1957. (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (3) This Act ... extends to Northern Ireland.