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

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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)
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
Date: 1965-1982
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: 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.

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