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This version of this statute is extracted from the UK Statute Law Database (SLD). It is not necessarily in the form in which it was originally enacted but is a revised version, which means that any subsequent amendments to the text and other effects are incorporated with annotations.
An Act to provide for the abolition of county committees of agriculture established under the Agriculture Act (Northern Ireland) 1949, and for purposes connected therewith.
[28th March 1972]
(1)The Minister of Agriculture may, by order made subject to affirmative resolution,—
(a)abolish, as from such dateF1 as may be specified in the order, the county committees of agriculture established under section 2 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Agriculture Act (Northern Ireland) 1949 M1;
(b)transfer, to such persons as may be specified in the order, the functions exercisable immediately before that date by those committees under section 3 of that Act; and
(c)make such other provisions as appear to him to be necessary or expedient in consequence of such abolition.
Subs.(2) repeals ss.2, 3 of, and sch.1 to, 1949 c.2 (NI); s.2(4) of 1959 c.2 (NI)
This Act may be cited as the Agriculture (Abolition of County Committees) Act (Northern Ireland) 1972.
Agriculture (Abolition of County Committees) Act (Northern Ireland) 1972