§ Mr. Kirkwoodasked the Lord Advocate why the occupiers of large areas of arable lands in deer forests and on Forestry Commission estates in Scotland are not being prosecuted for delaying to cultivate the land where suitable; and what steps he proposes to take to ensure that the law is as promptly and strictly enforced against such parties as has been done against the Midlothian smallholder who was recently fined for failing to cultivate a comparatively small area of land?
§ The Lord AdvocateFailure to cultivate land constitutes an offence against the Defence Regulations only when the occupier contravenes or fails to comply with a direction given by an agricultural executive committee under Regulation 62. No cases of such contravention in relation either to deer forests or to Forestry Commission estates in Scotland have yet been reported to me.