Agriculture (Amendment) Act, 1958
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Consequential amendments. |
8.—(1) Subsection (2) of section 19 of the Principal Act is hereby amended, in relation to any payments referred to in the subsection which are made on or after the 1st day of April, 1958, by the substitution of “charged on the area consisting of such county exclusive of every (if any) urban district therein” for “raised by means of the same rate and be paid out of the same funds and be charged on the same area as the agricultural rate to be raised by such council is raised by means of, paid out of and charged upon, but no such sum shall be reckoned for the purposes of any enactment (including this Act) limiting the amount of such rate”. | |
(2) The following provisions contained in section 30 of the Principal Act shall not apply in relation to contracts by a committee of agriculture made after the passing of this Act: | ||
(i) the provision contained in subsection (1) beginning with the words “and every such contract”, | ||
(ii) paragraph (b) of subsection (2). | ||
(3) Section 32 of the Principal Act shall not apply in relation to legal proceedings commenced after the passing of this Act. | ||
(4) The council of a county shall not borrow under section 37 of the Principal Act after the passing of this Act. | ||
(5) Subsection (1) of section 38 of the Principal Act is hereby amended— | ||
(i) by the insertion of “and every contribution by such council under subsection (1) of section 2 of the Agriculture (Amendment) Act, 1958,” before “shall be paid”, and | ||
(ii) by the addition of the following paragraphs: | ||
“(g) to defray expenditure incurred by such committee under section 4 of the Agriculture (Amendment) Act, 1958 ; | ||
(h) to make repayments of money borrowed by such committee and payments of interest on such money.” | ||
(6) Subsection (2) of section 38 of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the insertion of “and every contribution by such council under subsection (2) of section 2 of the Agriculture (Amendment) Act, 1958,” before “shall be paid”. | ||
(7) Section 39 of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the insertion of “or any other lawful purposes of committees of agriculture” before “such moneys”. | ||
(8) Subsection (3) of section 5 of the Agriculture (Amendment) Act, 1944 (No. 3 of 1944), is hereby amended, in relation to any payments referred to in the subsection which are made on or after the 1st day of April, 1958, by the substitution of “contributions under subsection (1) of section 2 of the Agriculture (Amendment) Act, 1958, made” for “moneys raised by means of the agricultural rate”. | ||
(9) The reference in subsection (6) of section 3 of the Agriculture (Amendment) Act, 1948 (No. 24 of 1948), to the preceding provisions of that section shall be construed as including a reference to those provisions as amended by section 7 of this Act, and section 17 and paragraph (d) of subsection (1) of section 38 of the Principal Act shall be construed accordingly. |