of profits amongst its members so as to comply with A.D. 1924. regulations made in that behalf by the Treasury. allotments 3. (1) Any scheme under the Town-Planning Acts, Provision 1909 and 1919, made and approved after the passing of for 5 this Act shall include as one of its objects the reservation permanent of lands for permanent allotments, and a local authority in townshall be deemed to have had authority at all times to planning made such a reservation. (2) Every local authority required to prepare a 10 scheme under the Town-Planning Acts, 1909 and 1919, shall appoint a committee to consider and report to such local authority from time to time, but at least once in every year, whether any and, if so, what lands within its district ought to be reserved for permanent allotments, 15 and whether the lands to be so reserved should be substituted for other lands so reserved in an existing scheme. One-half in number of the members of the committee to be appointed under the provisions of this section shall be members of the committee appointed by the local 20 authority under section fourteen of the Allotments Act, 1922, at least one of whom shall be a member co-opted in accordance with the provisions of that section. (3) Upon a report being made to a local authority in accordance with the provisions of the preceding sub25 section, that authority shall forthwith prepare a scheme to carry out the recommendations of the committee and submit the same to the Minister of Health for approval in accordance with the provisions of the Town-Planning Acts, 1909 and 1919. 30 schemes. allotments. 4. Subject to the provisions of this Act the Minister Grants to of Agriculture may, in accordance with a scheme made by local authohim, and up to an annual aggregate amount approved by rities for the Treasury, make grants out of moneys provided by Parlia- permanent ment to a local authority for the purpose of purchasing 35 land for permanent allotments. A grant under the provisions of this section shall only be made on such local authority proving to the satisfaction of the Minister of Agriculture 40 That suitable land is available within or contiguous that sufficient applications have been made to the A.D. 1924. Further provisions allotments. that the said land cannot be purchased except at such a price as would necessitate the payment by tenants of an annual rent in excess of two shillings per pole to enable the local authority to comply with the requirements of the Allotments 5 Acts, 1908 to 1922. 5. It shall be competent for the Minister of Agriculture, if he shall be of opinion, after consideration for assisting in providing of all the circumstances, that such an order should be made, in lieu of making a grant as provided by the 10 preceding section, to make an order authorising a local authority to raise and pay out of its district rate such a proportion as shall be fixed by his order of the interest on money borrowed by the local authority to purchase lands for permanent allotments; provided that no such order 15 .shall authorise the local authority to make a rate in excess of one penny in the pound for such purpose. Local ments. Amendment of section one of Allotments Act, 1922. As to sale, &c. of lands used as allotments. 6. A local authority owning allotments to which sections four and five apply shall let the same, in plots of not more than twenty poles in area, to persons residing 20 within the district of that authority or within one mile of the boundary of that district. 7.-(1) Section one of the Act of 1922 is hereby amended as follows, that is to say, in lieu of paragraph (a) of that section there shall be substituted- (a) a twelve months' or longer notice to quit, expiring on or before the fifth day of April or on or after the fifteenth day of October in any year: 25 and in paragraph (b) of that section as if the word "six" had been inserted in lieu of the word "three " in the first 30 line of that paragraph. (2) Section ten of the Act of 1922 is hereby amended as if the word "three " had been inserted in the first line of paragraph (b) of subsection (3) of that section in lieu of the word "two," and as if the words " or sport" had 35 been added in the fourth line after the word "agriculture." 8. Where any local authority has acquired lands for use as allotments or has appropriated lands for use as allotments in accordance with the provisions of section twenty-two of the Land Settlement (Facilities) Act, 1919, 40 such local authority shall not sell or otherwise dispose of such lands or appropriate the same to the use of any other purpose for which the local authority are authorised to A.D. 1924. use lands held by them unless and until that local authority shall have obtained the consent of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and the Ministry of Health 5 to such sale, disposition, or appropriation. 9. The provisions of subsection (1), paragraph (b), Further of section one of the Act of 1922 shall not apply to any provision as land the tenancy whereof is proposed to be terminated to terminaby reason of the land being required for building unless 10 the landlord shall have obtained from the local authority under tion of tenancy of the area in which such land is situate a certificate section one in writing under the hand of its clerk certifying that (1)(b) of plans have been approved for the erection of buildings Act of 1922. on such land and the landlord has satisfied the local 15 authority that building materials will be available for and work commenced on the proposed building forthwith on the termination of the notice to be given as provided by the said paragraph. In the event of building operations not being commenced on land to which the 20 provisions of this section apply within one month after the expiry of such notice as aforesaid, then such notice shall be deemed to be revoked and the tenancies existing at the date of giving such notice revived on the same terms as to rent and user of the lands as were in force at the 25 date of giving the notice to terminate the tenancy: Provided that, in the case of any tenancy revived under the provisions of this section, the length of notice required under section one of the Act of 1922, as amended by this Act, shall be twelve months: Provided also that, in cal30 culating the period of one month under this section, an allowance shall be made for time lost by reason, of any local combination of workmen or strike or lock-out affecting any of the building trades. 10. Notwithstanding anything contained in the Application 35 Allotments Acts of 1908 to 1922 or any other Act, the of Allotprovisions of the Allotments Act, 1922, as amended ments Act by this Act, shall apply to lands vested in His Majesty lands. as Crown lands. to Crown 11. This Act may be cited as the Allotments Act, Short title. 40 1924, and the provisions of the Smallholdings and Allotments Acts, 1908 to 1919, which relate to allotments, the Allotments Act, 1922, and this Act may be cited together as the Allotments Acts, 1908 to 1924. Facilitate the acquisition and maintenance of permanent allotments, and to make further provision for the security of tenure of tenants of allotments. Presented by Sir Kingsley Wood, supported by Mr. Bowerman, Sir Philip Pilditch, Mrs. Wintringham, and Mr. Harney. Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed, 28 July 1924. To be purchased directly from H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE at the following addresses: 1, St. Andrew's Crescent, Cardiff; or 120, George Street, Edinburgh; or through any Bookseller. A BILL INTITULED An Act to give effect to a Protocol on arbitra- A.D. 1924. tion clauses signed on behalf of His Majesty at a meeting of the Assembly of the League of Nations held on the twenty-fourth day of September, nineteen hundred and twenty-three. W HEREAS at a meeting of the Assembly of the League of Nations held on the twenty-fourth day of September, nineteen hundred and twenty-three, the protocol on arbitration clauses set forth in the Schedule 5 to this Act was signed on behalf of His Majesty : And whereas for the purpose of giving effect to the said protocol it is expedient that the provisions hereinafter contained shall have effect: Be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent 10 Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: respect of 1. (1) Notwithstanding anything in the Arbitration Staying of 15 Act, 1889, if any party to a submission made in pursuance court proof an agreement to which the said protocol applies, or ceedings in any person claiming through or under him, commences matters to any legal proceedings in any court against any other be referred party to the submission, or any person claiming through to arbitra20 or under him, in respect of any matter agreed to be tion under referred, any party to such legal proceedings may at any commercial agreements. 52 & 53 Vict. c.49. |