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Definitions.
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1.—(1) In this Act—
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the expression “the Minister” means the Minister for Local Government and Public Health;
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the word “county” does not include a county borough;
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the; expression “agricultural land” means land described as agricultural land in the valuation lists under the Valuation Acts;
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the expression “tenement of agricultural land” means a rateable hereditament or tenement which consists wholly or partly of agricultural land;
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the expression “rating area” means—
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(a) when used in relation to the council of a county, such county exclusive of any urban districts therein, and
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(b) when used in relation to the council of an urban district, such urban district.
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(2) The council of a county or of an urban district may, if they think proper, declare that the land within the curtilage of a specified dwelling-house in the rating area of the council of such county or urban district (as the case may be) shall not be agricultural land for the purposes of this Act, and thereupon such land shall not be agricultural land for the said purposes.
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