The Agricultural Wages Committees (Areas) Order 1974

Made: 20th March 1974

Coming into Operation: 1st April 1974

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 2 of the Agricultural Wages Act 1948, by Schedule 2 to that Act as amended by article 3 of the Agricultural Wages Committees (Transitional Provisions) Order 1974[^f00001], and by section 18 of that Act as amended by article 3(12) of the London Government Order 1965[^f00002], and of all his other enabling powers, hereby orders as follows:—

Citation, commencement and extent

1

This order, which may be cited as the Agricultural Wages Committees (Areas) Order 1974, shall come into operation on 1st April 1974 and shall apply to England and Wales.

Interpretation

2

• (1) In this order “county” means a county established by or under the Local Government Act 1972.

• (2) The Interpretation Act 1889 applies to the interpretation of this order as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.

Establishment of agricultural wages committees

3

• (1) Subject to the provisions of this order there shall be an agricultural wages committee for each county in England and Wales.

• (2) For each of the counties specified in Part I of the Schedule to this order there shall in the first place be a separate committee, and for each of the combinations of counties specified in Part II of that Schedule there shall in the first place be a committee for the combination.

Greater London

4

For the purposes of the Agricultural Wages Act 1948 the London boroughs of Barking, Havering, Newham, Redbridge and Waltham Forest shall be deemed to be included in the county of Essex, the London boroughs of Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Hackney, Haringey, Islington, Tower Hamlets and Westminster, the City of London, the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple in the county of Hertfordshire, the London boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich and Lewisham in the county of Kent, and the London boroughs of Brent, Croydon, Ealing, Hammersmith, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Kingston upon Thames, Lambeth, Merton, Richmond upon Thames, Southwark, Sutton and Wandsworth in the county of Surrey.

SCHEDULE

PART I — COUNTIES FOR WHICH SEPARATE AGRICULTURAL WAGES COMMITTEES ARE ESTABLISHED

Counties in England

• Cumbria

• Devon

• Humberside

• Kent

• Lincolnshire

• Norfolk

• North Yorkshire

• Northumberland

• Salop

• Suffolk

Counties in Wales

• Clwyd

• Dyfed

• Gwent

• Gwynedd

• Powys

PART II — COMBINATIONS OF COUNTIES FOR WHICH AGRICULTURAL WAGES COMMITTEES ARE ESTABLISHED

Counties in England

• Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire

• Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire

• Cheshire and Staffordshire

• Cleveland, Durham and Tyne and Wear

• Cornwall and Isles of Scilly

• Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire

• Dorset and Somerset

• Essex and Hertfordshire

• Gloucestershire, Avon and Wiltshire

• Hampshire and Isle of Wight

• Hereford and Worcester, Warwickshire and West Midlands

• Lancashire, Greater Manchester and Merseyside

• Leicestershire and Northamptonshire

• South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire

• Surrey, East Sussex and West Sussex

Counties in Wales

Mid Glamorgan, South Glamorgan and West Glamorgan

Signed

In Witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 20th March 1974.

Frederick Peart — Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Explanatory note

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order establishes new agricultural wages committees on 1st April 1974 to conform to the counties set up by the Local Government Act 1972. In some cases committees are established for individual counties and in others for combinations of counties. Greater London is divided between the adjacent counties as before.

All old committees are dissolved by the Agricultural Wages Committees (Transitional Provisions) Order 1974, which also makes various consequential and transitional provisions, involving amendments to the Agricultural Wages Act 1948 and to subordinate legislation made under it.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: (1974 I, p. 1957).

[^f00002]: (1965 I, p. 2038).