HC Deb 27 June 1947 vol 439 c880

Resolution reported: That, for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to authorise the making out of moneys provided by Parliament of acreage payments in respect of crops grown in the year nineteen hundred and forty-seven on land affected by abnormal flooding, to amend the Hill Farming Act, 1946, as respects subsidy payments for sheep, and to authorise the making of advances in respect of such subsidy payments for the years nineteen hundred and forty-eight and nineteen hundred and forty-nine (in this Resolution referred to as 'the new Act'), it is expedient to authorise the payment out of moneys provided by Parliament—

  1. (a) of expenditure authorised by the new Act, whether incurred before or after the passing thereof, in making acreage payments in respect of crops grown in the year nineteen hundred and forty-seven on land affected by abnormal flooding;
  2. (b) of any increase in the sums payable out of moneys provided by Parliament under Section thirteen of the Hill Farming Act, 1946, which is attributable to provisions of the new Act enabling subsidy payments in respect of sheep to be calculated by reference to circumstances at the first relevant day for the purposes of that section notwithstanding that the payments relate to a subsequent such relevant day;
  3. (c) of advances authorised by the new Act, whether made before or after the passing thereof, in the case of such subsidy payments as aforesaid relating to the second and third relevant days for the purposes of the said Section thirteen."

Resolution agreed to.