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under this section of the Act the board may recover from the person then 

 entitled to resume its occupation the value of the works of cultivation 

 and adaptation which they have executed ; and such person will be entitled 

 to receive from them compensation for any direct or substantial loss which 

 he has incurred in consequence of their action. The amount paj'able in 

 either case will, in default of agreement between those concerned, be deter- 

 mined by a single arbitrator in accordance with the Agricultural Holdings 

 Act, 1908. If the disputing parties do not agree upon an arbitrato he will 

 be nominated by the President of the vSurveyors' Institution. 



The Board of Agriculture and Fisheries may authorize any person or 

 bod}^ of persons to exercise on their behalf any of their powers to enforce 

 proper cultivation of land, or the}' may constitute a body to do so in condi- 

 tions which they will prescribe. 



§ 3. Special Provisions for vScotland and Ireland. 



The Corn Production Act, 1917, is applicable to Scotland with the fol- 

 lowing modifications : 



a) The Board of Agriculture for Scotland is substituted for the Board 

 of Agriculture and Fisheries. 



b) A separate Agricultural Wages Board is established for Scotland 

 and substituted for the Agricultural Wages Board. 



c) The Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act, 1908, is substituted for 

 the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1908. 



d) The Chairman of the Scottish Committee of the Surveyors' Insti- 

 tution is substituted for the President of the Surveyors' Institution. 



e) The " Edinburgh Gazette " is substituted for the " London Ga- 

 zette ". 



To Ireland the Act is applied with the following modifications : 

 a) The powers and duties of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries 

 will be exercised and performed by the lyord I/ieutenant or by or through 

 such departments and bodies as he may determine. 



h) A separate Agricultural Wages Board is established for Ireland 

 and substituted for the Agricultural Wages Board ; but the pov/ers of the 

 latter board to fix minimum rates of wages shall be exercised bj^ the I/)rd 

 Lieutenant on the advice of the separate board for Ireland. For all re- 

 ferences in the Act to the rate of at least 25s. a week references to an ade- 

 quate rate are substituted. The provisions of the Act as to the retrospec- 

 tive effect of a minimum rate of wages for able-bodied men do not apply 

 to Ireland. 



c) The provisions of the Act as to the constitution of the Agricul- 

 tural Wages Board and District Wages Committees do not apply to Ireland. 

 This exception is due to the fact that the Irish members of the Agricultural 

 Sub-Committee, on whose report the Act was based, were appointed at a 

 later date than the English and Scottish members, and therefore it was 

 impossible for the committee to give adequate attention to the special cir- 

 cumstances of Ireland which bear on the question of Wages Boards. 



