HC Deb 19 May 1944 vol 400 cc541-2

Resolution reported: That for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to provide for the establishment of a National Agricultural Advisory Service, and for increasing the resources of the Agricultural Mortgage Corporation and the Scottish Agricultural Securities Corporation, and otherwise to amend the law relating to agriculture and matters connected therewith (hereafter in this resolution referred to as the "new Act") it is expedient to authorize—

  1. (a) the payment out of moneys provided by Parliament of any expenses incurred by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries in connection with the establishment and maintenance of a National Agricultural Advisory Service (including the salaries and other remuneration and any superannuation benefits payable to persons appointed or transferred under the provisions of the new Act relating to the said service);
  2. (b) the payment out of the Consolidated Fund of any sums required for making advances in accordance with the provisions of the new Act to the Agricultural Mort- 542 gage Corporation and to the Scottish Agricultural Securities Corporation, not exceeding—
    1. (i) in the case of the Agricultural Mortgage Corporation, two million five hundred thousand pounds together with the advances made to the guarantee find of that Corporation under Part I of the Agricultural Credits Act, 1928; or
    2. (ii) in the case of the Scottish Agricultural Securities Corporation, four hundred and twenty-five thousand pounds together with the advances made to the guarantee fund of that Corporation under the Agricultural Credits (Scotland) Act, 1929;
    and the payment into the Exchequer of any sums paid by either Corporation by way of repayment of or interest on any such advances made under the new Act;
  3. (c) the increase to one hundred and fifty thousand pounds of the sums which may be paid to the Agricultural Mortgage Corporation, in the year in which the memorandum and articles of the Corporation are altered as provided by the new Act and any subsequent year, out of moneys provided by Parliament under section thirty-two of the Agricultural Development Act, 1939;
  4. (d) the payment to the Scottish Agricultural Securities Corporation out of moneys provided by Parliament, either by way of grant or by way of loan, of sums not exceeding thirty thousand pounds in the year beginning on the 1st April, 1944, and each or any of the succeeding nineteen years;
  5. (e) the extension to 31st July, 1947, of the period in respect of which contributions may be made out of moneys provided by Parliament under Part 1 of the Agriculture Act, 1937, as amended by any subsequent enactment, towards expenses incurred in acquiring and transporting lime;
  6. (f) grants out of money provided by Parliament towards expenditure incurred in carrying out schemes for the supply of water for domestic purposes to dwelling houses occupied or usually occupied in connection with, or by persons employed in connection with agricultural land in England or Wales;
  7. (g) grants out of moneys provided by Parliament under section sixteen of the Agricultural Act, 1937, as amended by any subsequent enactment to owners or occupiers of dwelling houses occupied or usually occupied in connection with, or by persons employed in connection with, agricultural land in Scotland in respect of expenditure on the provision of a supply of water for domestic purposes to such dwelling houses;
  8. (h) the payment out of moneys provided by Parliament of any such increase in the expenses incurred under the Improvement of Livestock (Licensing of Bulls) Act, 1931, by the Minister within the meaning of that Act as may be occasioned by the provisions of the new Act extending the said Act of 1931 to pigs."

Resolution agreed to.