The Agricultural Holdings Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6. c. 63) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed by the Labour government of Prime Minister Clement Attlee that consolidated. It provided tenant farmers with security of tenure for life.
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Repealed enactments Section 98 of the act repealed 11 enactments, listed in the eighth schedule to the act. Citation Short title Extent of repeal 13 & 14 Geo. 5 c. 9 Agricultural Holdings Act 1923 The whole act. 13 & 14 Geo. 5 c. 25 Agriculture (Amendment) Act 1923 The whole act. 15 & 16 Geo. 5 c. 20 Law of Property Act 1925 In section one hundred and forty, the proviso to subsection (2). 16 & 17 Geo. 5 c. 11 Law of Property (Amendment) Act 1926 Section two. 19 & 20 Geo. 5 c. 17 Local Government Act 1929 In the Tenth Schedule, paragraph 17. 24 & 25 Geo. 5 c. 14 Arbitration Act 1934 Section eighteen and the proviso to section nineteen. 1 Edw. 8 & 1 Geo. 6 c. 70 Agriculture Act 1937 Section five, so far as it relates to agricultural holdings. 2 & 3 Geo. 6 c. 48 Agricultural Development Act 1939 In section thirty, subsection (2) so far as it relates to agricultural holdings. 3 & 4 Geo. 6 c. 14 Agriculture (Miscellaneous War Provisions) Act 1940 In section fifteen, subsection (2) so far as it relates to agricultural holdings. 3 & 4 Geo. 6 c. 50 Agriculture (Miscellaneous War Provisions) (No. 2) Act 1940 In section one, subsection (2). 10 & 11 Geo. 6 c. 48 Agriculture Act 1947 Part III except section thirty-two in relation to notices to quit given before the commencement of this Act and except section forty-six so far as relating to the provisions therein mentioned so far as continued in force by this Act. In section eighty-seven, subsection (10). In the Second Schedule, in paragraph 2 the words from “or a direction” to “permanent pasture” in the first place where those words occur, and in paragraph 4 the words from the beginning to “this Act”. The Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Schedules.
Subsequent developments The whole act was repealed by section 101(1) of, and part I of schedule 15 to, the Agricultural Holdings Act 1986.
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