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Agriculture Act 1970
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### Miscellaneous repeals
#### Interpretation of Part II.
#### Amendments as to grants in connection with alterations of farm structure.
#### Enforcement authorities and appointment of inspectors and analysts.
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#### Interpretation of Part IV.
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- (4) With a view to implementing or supplementing any Community instrument relating to fertilisers or to material intended for the feeding of animals, regulations may provide for the application, in relation to any material specified in the regulations, of all or any of the provisions of this Part of this Act, subject to any modifications which may be so specified.
#### Institution of prosecutions.
#### Supplementary provisions relating to samples and analysis.
#### Provision of flood warning systems.
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#### Offences by bodies corporate.
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(under which grant under those Acts may be recovered by the appropriate Minister if there is a failure to carry out proposals), and any provision to the like effect in regulations made under section 77(3) of the Agriculture (Scotland) Act 1948 or section 22(4) of the Crofters (Scotland) Act 1955, shall not apply where in the opinion of the appropriate Minister the carrying out of the proposals is, as a consequence of an amalgamation or boundary adjustment apporved in pursuance of a scheme under this section or in consequence of the carrying out or provision of works or facilities certified under subsection (6) thereof, impracticable or to no purpose or unduly expensive.
In Schedule 8, in Part II, in the first entry, for the words from “the application" to the end of the entry, there shall be substituted the words “ any regulations made under section 52(2) of the Agriculture Act 1970 ”, and in the second entry, for the words “not authorised by Part IV of this Act" there shall be substituted the words “not authorised by Part III of the Agriculture Act 1970"
At the end of section 12 there shall be added the following proviso:-
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[^c8441861]: [Schedule 5](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1970/40/schedule/5) repealed by [Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989 (c. 43)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1989/43), [s.1(1)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1989/43/section/1/1), [Sch. 1 Pt. XI](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1989/43/schedule/1/part/XI)
[^key-70b62006ea41cbb4ba008760798e7256]: S. 74(2) amendment to earlier affecting provision SI 2001/343 reg. 7(1) (W.) (1.5.2003) by [The Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/989)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/989), [regs. 1(1)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/989/regulation/1/1), [4](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/989/regulation/4)
[^key-a16c09f1cbee4f00829fd86f20378037]: S. 74A(3) amendment to earlier affecting provision SI 2001/343 reg. 24(1) (W.) (1.5.2003) by [The Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/989)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/989), [regs. 1(1)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/989/regulation/1/1), [4](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/989/regulation/4)
[^key-76273e990a63e350c3e3a6f35b617518]: S. 67(8) amendment to earlier affecting provision SI 1999/2325 reg. 9 (W.) (1.5.2003) by [The Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/989)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/989), [regs. 1(1)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/989/regulation/1/1), [7](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/989/regulation/7)
[^key-b8a0c27137792bf6e49633e53cae49a5]: Pt. IV amendment to earlier affecting provision SI 1999/2325 reg. 7 (W.) (1.5.2003) by [The Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/989)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/989), [regs. 1(1)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/989/regulation/1/1), [7](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/989/regulation/7)
[^key-e630afdc1c32b6e354a79b65a3202ac7]: S. 76: amendment to earlier affecting provision S.I. 1999/2325, reg. 10 (W.) (1.5.2003) by [The Feeding Stuffs (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/989)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/989), [regs. 1(1)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/989/regulation/1/1), [7](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/989/regulation/7)
[^M_C_07517ed5-affa-4c7e-b3b6-faa91c2bb15f]: S. 77(4) modified by [S.I. 1999/2325](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2325), [reg. 11A](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2325/regulation/11A) (as inserted: (E.) (20.3.3001) by [S.I. 2001/541](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/541), [reg. 8](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/541/regulation/8); (S.) (6.4.2001) by [S.S.I. 2001/104](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2001/104), [reg. 5(b)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2001/104/regulation/5/b); (W.) (1.8.2001) by [S.I. 2001/2253](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/2253), [reg. 8](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/2253/regulation/8))
[^M_C_744316b4-cecd-479a-8d25-bdd3058f0cfd]: S. 78(6) modified by [S.I. 1999/2325](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2325), [reg. 11A](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2325/regulation/11A) (as inserted: (E.) (20.3.2001) by [S.I. 2001/541](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/541), [reg. 8](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/541/regulation/8); (S.) (6.4.2001) by [S.S.I. 2001/104](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2001/104), [reg. 5(b)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2001/104/regulation/5/b); (W.) (1.8.2001) by [S.I. 2001/2253](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/2253), [reg. 8](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/2253/regulation/8))
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