HC Deb 05 June 1947 vol 438 cc494-5
Mr. Marquand

I beg to move, in page 55, line 12, to leave out "vested in the Minister."

This Amendment and the next Amendment are consequential on an Amendment to Clause 65 (1, a) made in Committee. That Amendment provided that the Minister could place under the control of the Agricultural Land Commission, for the purposes of management or farming, not only land vested in the Minister, but land in respect of which the Minister was responsible but not the owner. The effect of these Amendments will be that where the Minister places land at the disposal of the Commission, the Commission will be able to grant tenancies which otherwise would have to be granted by the Minister. In other words, it enables them to deal with all land put at their disposal.

Amendment agreed to.

Further Amendment made: In page 55, line 15, leave out "tenancies of the land," and insert: any tenancy of the land which could have been granted by the Minister."—[Mr. Marquand.]

Mr. T. Williams

I beg to move, in page 55, line 30, at the end, to insert: (6) The persons appointed to be members of the Commission and the Sub-Commission shall be persons appearing to the Minister to be qualified as having appropriate technical, commercial or administrative qualifications, and one of the persons appointed to be a member of the Commission shall be a person appearing to the Minister to be qualified as having special knowledge and experience of agriculture in Wales. This Amendment carries out a promise given by the Parliamentary Secretary during the Committee Stage, when he said that he would endeavour to define in broad terms the sort of qualifications members of the Agricultural Land Commission and the Sub-Commission should have, and provide that one member should be a person with special knowledge and experience of agriculture in Wales.

Amendment agreed to.