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Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Land Improvement Divisions: Registered...

Catalogue reference: MAF 391

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MAF 391

This series contains records detailing steps taken to assist hill-farmers under the Hill Farming Act 1946 and part III of the Agriculture Act 1967.Many early AZ files contain pre-1966 papers re-registered from the LGS file series: MAF 277

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Reference
MAF 391
Title
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Land Improvement Divisions: Registered Files, Development of Rural, Hill and Less Favoured Areas (AZ Series)
Date
1965-1982
Description

This series contains records detailing steps taken to assist hill-farmers under the Hill Farming Act 1946 and part III of the Agriculture Act 1967.

Many early AZ files contain pre-1966 papers re-registered from the LGS file series: MAF 277

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
AZ file series
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Physical description
63 file(s)
Access conditions
Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Accumulation dates
1966 to 1981
Accruals
Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background

Part III (Hill Land) of the Agriculture Act 1967 allowed the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food to introduce a Hill Land Improvement Scheme (SI 1967/1221). It also permitted the establishment of Rural Development Boards (RDBs) 'with a view to applying the provisions of this Part of the Act for meeting the special problems of the development as rural areas of hills and uplands' (section 45(1)). RDBs had been recommended in the report (1965) of the Interdepartmental Working Party on the Hills and Uplands.

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10791/

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Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Land Improvement Divisions: Registered Files, Development of Rural, Hill and Less Favoured Areas (AZ Series)