1. Grants under schemes for improvement of hill farming land. U.K.
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(3) In this Act— [ F2 the expression “ livestock rearing land ” means land situated in an area consisting predominantly of mountains, hills or heath, being land which is, or by improvement could be made, suitable for use for the breeding, rearing and maintenance of sheep or cattle but not for the carrying on, to any material extent, of dairy farming, the production, to any material extent, of fat sheep or fat cattle or the production of crops in quantity materially greater than that necessary to feed the number of sheep or cattle capable of being maintained on the land; ] [ F2 the expression “ livestock rearing purposes ” means the breeding, rearing and maintenance of sheep or cattle, and includes other activities carried on in connection therewith, ] and the expression “ improvement ” means, subject to the provisions of this section, an operation of any of the kinds specified in the First Schedule to this Act, and any operation incidental to, or necessary or proper in the carrying out of, an operation of any such kind or for securing the full benefit thereof.
(4) Subject to the provisions of section thirty-seven of this Act, the Ministers may from time to time by order modify the kinds of operations that are to be treated as improvements for the purposes of this Act by adding to the First Schedule to this Act, or by deleting therefrom, or modifying the description of, a kind of operation for the time being therein specified: . . . F3
(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1 Textual Amendments F1 S. 1(1)(2)(5) repealed by Agriculture Act 1970 (c. 40) , ss. 35(1) , 113(3) , Sch. 5 Pt. II F2 Definitions substituted by Livestock Rearing Act 1951 (c. 18) , s. 1(2) ( a ), (3)( a ),( b ) F3 Proviso repealed by Agriculture Act 1970 (c. 40) , ss. 35(1) , 113(3) , Sch. 5 Pt. II Modifications etc. (not altering text) C4 S. 1 amended (E.W.) (S.) by Livestock Rearing Act 1951 (c. 18) , s. 4 ; extended by Agriculture Act 1970 (c. 40) , s. 34(1)(2) C5 S. 1(4) : Functions of the Secretary of State, the Secretary of State for Scotland or the Secretary of State for Wales transferred to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (27.12.1999) by S.I. 1999/3141 , arts. 2(1)(5) , 3 , Sch. C6 S. 1(4) amended by Livestock Rearing Act 1951 (c. 18) , s. 8
