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AGRICULTURE (TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1954

AGRICULTURE (TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE) ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1954 - LONG
TITLE

An Act to authorise the making of schemes for giving financial
assistance to the agricultural industry in Northern Ireland; and for
purposes connected therewith{1}.
[21st December 1954]
Schemes for assisting agricultural industry.

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1.(1) For the purpose of assisting the agricultural industry in
Northern Ireland, the Ministry of Agriculture (in this Act referred
to as "the Ministry") may, in accordance with and subject to
schemes made by the Minister of Agriculture (in this Act referred
to as "the Minister") with the approval of the Minister of Finance,
make payments to or for the benefit (whether direct or indirect) of
farmers producing any produce specified in the schemes.

[(2) The Minister may by order provide that this Act and all such
schemes made under this Act shall, except to such extent as may be
specified in the order, cease to have effect on such date as may
be specified in the order so however that an order shall not be
made under this sub-section unless and until a draft thereof has
been approved by the Minister of Finance and by a resolution of
each House of Parliament.]

(3) The Minister may in connection with the making or administration
of any scheme consult with such bodies of persons as appear to him
to represent the interests of farmers producing the produce specified
in the scheme or such other interests as appear to the Minister to
be concerned therewith.

(4) A scheme made under this Act may be varied or revoked by a
subsequent scheme made under this Act.

(5) A scheme made under this Act shall be laid before each House
of Parliament, and if either House of Parliament within the next
statutory period on which it has sat after the scheme is laid
before it, resolves that the scheme shall be annulled, the scheme
shall thereupon cease to have effect but without prejudice to
anything done thereunder or to the making of a new scheme.

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Further provisions as to schemes.

2.(1) Without prejudice to the generality of the preceding section,
a scheme made under this Act may contain such provisions as appear
to the Minister to be necessary or desirable

(a)for providing that, subject to any specified limits of quantity,
a farmer who has failed to effect a sale of his produce at or
above a specified price through the ordinary means of trading, may,
subject to any specified conditions, receive payments of specified
amounts or at specified rates in respect of such produce;

(b)for providing for the making of payments at a specified rate per
[hectacre] to farmers producing any specified produce, subject to any
specified conditions and to any specified power to reduce or
withhold payment on any specified grounds;

(c)for securing that factors affecting the determination of the
amount of the payments to be made under the scheme are determined
by reference to production of or dealings in the specified produce
in any specified period whether occurring before or after the date
of the scheme or occuring partly before and partly after the date
of the scheme;

(d)for making different payments in different circumstances, and in
particular for making in relation to any specified produce, different
payments or different provisions for different qualities or
descriptions thereof or for different seasons of the year or
according to the purpose for which the produce is to be used;

(e)for providing for the making, collection, application or return of
equalization payments or service charges on specified produce;

(f)for requiring persons engaged in the producing or marketing of
specified produce to register with the Ministry or with any
specified person and to furnish specified information in regard to
the specified produce and to permit inspection of the books and
premises of such persons;

(g) for exempting from the scheme any person or class of persons
engaged in producing or marketing the specified produce or any
quality or description of the specified produce;

(h)for regulating and improving the quality, production or marketing
of specified produce; and

(i)for securing the due and proper administration of the scheme and
for preventing fraud in connection with the scheme.

(2) Without prejudice to any other provision of this Act, section
thirteen of the Agriculture Act (Northern Ireland), 1949, shall apply
in relation to the powers exercisable by the Minister under this
Act as it applies in relation to the powers exercisable by the
Ministry under or by virtue of any provision contained in Part I
of that Act.

S.3 rep. by SLR 1976

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Penal provisions.

4.(1) Any person who

(a)being required or authorised under or by virtue of a scheme made
under this Act to furnish any information or record or account,
furnishes any information or record or account which, to his
knowledge, is false in a material particular; or

Para.(b) rep. by 1969 c.16 (NI) s.31(2) sch.3 Pt.I

(2) Any person

(a)who acts in contravention of or neglects or fails to comply with
any provision contained in any scheme made under this Act; or

(b)who obstructs or impedes an officer of the Ministry in the
exercise of any power of inspection exercisable under any such
scheme

Interpretation.

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5. In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears, the following
expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them, that is to
say:

"agriculture" has the same meaning as in the Agriculture Act
(Northern Ireland), 1949;

"Minister" and "Ministry" have the meaning assigned to them by
sub-section (1) of section one of this Act;

"produce" means anything (whether alive or dead) produced in the
course of agriculture; and

"specified" means specified in a scheme made under this Act.

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Short title.

6. This Act may be cited as the Agriculture (Temporary Assistance)
Act (Northern Ireland), 1954.