HC Deb 06 February 1951 vol 483 cc1544-5

Resolution reported: That, for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to amend the provisions of the Hill Farming Act, 1946 (hereinafter referred to as "the principal Act"), relating to the rehabilitation of hill farming land, the payment of subsidies in respect of hill sheep and hill cattle and the control of rams in England and Wales, it is expedient to authorise—

  1. (1) the payment, out of moneys provided by Parliament, of—
    1. (a) any increase in,—
      1. (i) the sums authorised by section one of the principal Act to be paid out of such moneys by the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries and the Secretary of State by way of grants in respect of the cost of work done in accordance with schemes approved under that section;
      2. (ii) the amounts which, under subsection (3) of section five of that Act, may he paid out of such moneys by the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries and the Secretary of State in respect of the cost of work done in accordance with a scheme so approved in so far as that cost is rendered abortive by the revocation or variation of the scheme in the public interest;
      3. (iii) the expenses incurred under the principal Act by the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries in doing work required for the making of improvements for the benefit of land that is subject to rights of common of pasture;
      being an increase attributable to provisions of the said Act of the present Session extending the class of land for the improvement of which grants may he made under the principal Act by the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries and the Secretary of State or work may be done under that Act by the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries:
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    2. (b) any increase in the sums mentioned in head (i) of the foregoing sub-paragraph which is attributable to provisions of the said Act of the present Session—
      1. (i) extending by five years the period within which schemes may be submitted under section one of the principal Act for the approval of the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries or the Secretary of State;
      2. (ii) increasing by sixteen million pounds the maximum amount that may he paid in the aggregate by way of grants under that section and by one million pounds the amount by which the said maximum amount may he increased by an Order made by the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries and the Secretary of State and approved by a Resolution of this House, and extending by five years the period within which an order providing for increasing the said maximum amount may be so made;
    3. (c) any increase in the sums which, under section thirteen of the principal Act, are to he defrayed out of such moneys, being an increase attributable to provisions of the said Act of the present Session increasing by five the number of years by reference to which the making by the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries and the Secretary of State of payments in respect of sheep comprised in flocks kept on hill lands and cattle grazed on such land is authorised by that section;
    4. (d) any expenses incurred by the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries which are attributable to any provisions of the said Act of the present Session empowering him to make regulations providing for the inspection of rams and uncastrated ram lambs by referees appointed by him;
    5. (e) any increase attributable to the said Act of the present Session in the administrative expenses incurred for the purposes of the principal Act by the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries and the Secretary of State or either of them:
  2. (2) the payment into the Exchequer of any sum recovered under any provision of the said Act of the present Session from any person by the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries or the Secretary of State.

Resolution agreed to.