
1 
This order, which may be cited as the Agricultural Wages Committees (Areas) Order 1974, shall come into operation on 1st April 1974 and shall apply to England and Wales.
2 

(1) In this order “county” means a county established by or under the Local Government Act 1972.
(2) The Interpretation Act 1889 applies to the interpretation of this order as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
3 

(1) Subject to the provisions of this order there shall be an agricultural wages committee for each county in England and Wales.
(2) For each of the counties specified in Part I of the Schedule to this order there shall in the first place be a separate committee, and for each of the combinations of counties specified in Part II of that Schedule there shall in the first place be a committee for the combination.
4 
For the purposes of the Agricultural Wages Act 1948 the London boroughs of Barking, Havering, Newham, Redbridge and Waltham Forest shall be deemed to be included in the county of Essex, the London boroughs of Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Hackney, Haringey, Islington, Tower Hamlets and Westminster, the City of London, the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple in the county of Hertfordshire, the London boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich and Lewisham in the county of Kent, and the London boroughs of Brent, Croydon, Ealing, Hammersmith, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Kingston upon Thames, Lambeth, Merton, Richmond upon Thames, Southwark, Sutton and Wandsworth in the county of Surrey.
In Witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 20th March 1974.
Frederick Peart
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

SCHEDULE
Article 3
PART I
Counties in England
 Cumbria
 Devon
 Humberside
 Kent
 Lincolnshire
 Norfolk
 North Yorkshire
 Northumberland
 Salop
 Suffolk

Counties in Wales
 Clwyd
 Dyfed
 Gwent
 Gwynedd
 Powys

PART II
Counties in England
 Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire
 Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire
 Cheshire and Staffordshire
 Cleveland, Durham and Tyne and Wear
 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly
 Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire
 Dorset and Somerset
 Essex and Hertfordshire
 Gloucestershire, Avon and Wiltshire
 Hampshire and Isle of Wight
 Hereford and Worcester, Warwickshire and West Midlands
 Lancashire, Greater Manchester and Merseyside
 Leicestershire and Northamptonshire
 South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire
 Surrey, East Sussex and West Sussex

Counties in Wales

Mid Glamorgan, South Glamorgan and West Glamorgan
