The Agricultural Wages Committees (Areas) Order 1974

• Citation: S.I. 1974/515
• Sections: 4

Section 1 Citation, commencement and extent

This order, which may be cited as the Agricultural Wages Committees (Areas) Order 1974, shall come into operation on 1st April 1974 and shall apply to England and Wales.

Section 2 Interpretation

(1) In this order “ county ” means a county established by or under the Local Government Act 1972.

(2) The Interpretation Act 1889 applies to the interpretation of this order as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.

Section 3 Establishment of agricultural wages committees

(1) Subject to the provisions of this order there shall be an agricultural wages committee for each county in England and Wales.

(2) For each of the counties specified in Part I of the Schedule to this order there shall in the first place be a separate committee, and for each of the combinations of counties specified in Part II of that Schedule there shall in the first place be a committee for the combination.

Section 4 Greater London

For the purposes of the Agricultural Wages Act 1948 the London boroughs of Barking, Havering, Newham, Redbridge and Waltham Forest shall be deemed to be included in the county of Essex, the London boroughs of Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Hackney, Haringey, Islington, Tower Hamlets and Westminster, the City of London, the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple in the county of Hertfordshire, the London boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich and Lewisham in the county of Kent, and the London boroughs of Brent, Croydon, Ealing, Hammersmith, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Kingston upon Thames, Lambeth, Merton, Richmond upon Thames, Southwark, Sutton and Wandsworth in the county of Surrey.