Agriculture (Amendment) Act, 1974

Amendment of section 2 of the Agriculture (Amendment) Act, 1958.

1.—(1) Section 2 of the Agriculture (Amendment) Act, 1958 , is hereby amended by the substitution for subsection (1) (inserted by the Agriculture (Amendment) Act, 1971 ) of the following subsection:

“(1) The council of a county shall, in the local financial year beginning on the 1st day of January, 1975, and every subsequent local financial year, make to the committee of agriculture for the county a contribution under this subsection of not less than the produce of a rate in the preceding local financial year of one new penny in the pound in the area consisting of the county exclusive of every (if any) urban district therein and not more than forty times such produce.”.

(2) All acts and things done before the 1st day of January, 1975, by the council of a county in relation to the making of any rate for the local financial year beginning on that day shall be as valid and effectual as if this Act had been in force at the time those acts or things were done.