I 8 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



A.D. (3) The person entitled to kill rabbits, hares or vermin on 



any common lands shall, for the purpose of this section, be 

 deemed to be the occupier of the land. 



(4) For the purpose of this section, the expression "vermin" 



includes squirrels. 



Appoint- 5. — (1) For the purpose of exercising in England and Wales, 



assistant Scotland, and Ireland, respectively, the administrative powers 



erftoactfor and duties of the Commissioners (other than those relating to 



Scotland! statistics, instruction and training, inquiries, experiments and 



rean ' research), and such of their other powers or duties as the 



Commissioners may determine, the Commissioners shall appoint 



three persons to be assistant commissioners, of whom one shall 



be appointed as assistant commissioner for England and Wales, 



one for Scotland, and one for Ireland. 



(2) The salaries of the assistant commissioners shall be such 

 as the Treasury may determine, and the Commissioners may 

 from time to time remove any assistant commissioner and appoint 

 another person to be assistant commissioner in his place. 

 Consuita- 6. — (1) It shall be lawful for His Majesty, by Order in 



tees for Council, to establish consultative committees for England, 

 Scotland', Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, respectively, for giving to the 

 Wat".' 3 Commissioners in accordance with the provisions of the Order 

 advice and assistance with respect to the exercise and perform- 

 ance by the Commissioners of their powers and duties under 

 this Act. 



(2) The constitution of each consultative committee shall be 

 such as may be determined by the Order, so, however, that the 

 Order shall provide for the inclusion among the members of the 

 committee of — 



(a) a representative, in the case of the English Committee 

 and the Welsh Committee, respectively, of the Board 

 of Agriculture and Fisheries, in the case of the 

 Scottish Committee, of the Board of Agriculture for 

 Scotland, and in the case of the Irish Committee, • of 

 the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruc- 

 tion for Ireland ; 

 (£) persons having practical experience of matters relating 

 to forestry, woodcraft, and woodland industries ; 



(c) representatives of labour; 



(d) representatives of county councils and any other local 



bodies interested in forestry ; 



