Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Registered Files: Agricultural Land Commission (ALC Series)

Reference:

MAF 245

Title:

Description:

Minutes, agenda and reports of meetings, and working files of the Agricultural Land Commission and the Welsh Agricultural Land Sub-commission. The series also includes two files concerning management and accounts at Crichel Down.

Date:

1919-1964

Related Material:

Papers relating to the Welsh Agricultural Land Sub-commission will be found in Welsh Office series (BD).
For records relating to Crichel Down see MAF 236

Held by:

The National Archives, Kew

Former references:

in its original department: ALC file series

Legal status:

Public Record

Language:

English

Creator:

Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Land Division I, Agricultural Land Commission, 1947-1953
Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Land Division, Agricultural Land Commission, 1953-1955
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Land Division I, Agricultural Land Commission, 1955-1958
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Land Improvement Division, Agricultural Land Commission, 1958-1964

Physical description:

202 files and volumes

Access conditions:

Open

Accumulation Dates:

1947

Administrative / biographical background:

The Agricultural Land Commission was created under s68 of the Agriculture Act 1947, its function being to manage all farming land vested in the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, and to advise and assist him in matters relating to the management of agricultural land generally. It was dissolved in December 1963, when its functions were taken over by the Estate Management Committee of the ministry's Agricultural Land Service.

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