1921.] 



The Agriculture Act, 1920. 



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interest be thereby maintained or increased " without 

 injuriously affecting the persons interested in the land." A 

 right of appeal to an arbitrator is provided to determine 

 whether the notice is properly served. Such notice may not 

 interfere with the discretion of the occupier as to the crops 

 to be grown. 



b A new power is given to require the landlord or tenant 

 according to their respective responsibilities to execute 

 repairs which are necessary to secure proper cultivation. If 

 a landlord is required to execute repairs and fails to comply, 

 the tenant may be authorised by the Minister to execute 

 the works and recover the cost from the landlord. Notices 

 to execute repairs are also subject to an appeal to 

 arbitration. 



(c) Unreasonable failure to comply with a notice served under 

 this section is punishable by fine, and a County Agricultural 

 Committee acting on behalf of the Minister is entitled to 

 execute the work and recover the cost. This procedure is 

 substituted for the provisions in the Act of 1917 enabling 

 the Minister to determine tenancies or take possession in 

 a case of default. 



(d) Cases have occurred in which gobd husbandry and food 

 production have been prejudiced by the gross mismanage- 

 ment of an estate, and the Minister is empowered in such 

 cases, after consultation with the County Agricultural Com- 

 mittee and full inquiry, to make an order appointing a 

 receiver and manager to act on behalf of the owner with 

 wide powers of management. An appeal lies to the High 

 Court against such an order. 



(e) Provision is made for dealing with the nuisance caused 

 by the growth of weeds on land which cannot be dealt with 

 under the provisions relating to the enforcement of good 

 husbandry, on account of the land not being under cultiva- 

 tion, as. for instance, on roadside and railway embankments. 



4. Section 6 establishes a separate agricultural wages adminis- 

 tration for Wales on the lines of the Scottish scheme under the 

 Act of 1917. 



Part II. 



5. The Act, whilst preserving in all circumstances the right 

 of a landlord to give a tenant notice to quit, by Section 10 

 secures tenants against the loss consequent on eviction by 

 extending the existing provisions with regard to recovery of com- 

 pensation for disturbance. The general effect of the section is 



