
2024 No. 788 (W. 122) (C. 49)
Landlord And Tenant, Wales
The Agriculture Act 2020 (Commencement No. 3 and Transitional Provision) (Wales) Regulations 2024
Made 9 July 2024
The Welsh Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 57(3)(a) of the Agriculture Act 2020, make the following Regulations.
Title and application
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(1) The title of these Regulations is the Agriculture Act 2020 (Commencement No. 3 and Transitional Provision) (Wales) Regulations 2024.
(2) These Regulations apply in relation to Wales.
Provisions coming into force on 1 September 2024
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The following provisions of the Agriculture Act 2020 (“the 2020 Act”) come into force on 1 September 2024—
(a) paragraphs 10 to 16 of Schedule 3 (succession on death or retirement: condition relating to occupation of a commercial unit),
(b) paragraph 18 of Schedule 3 (succession on death or retirement: condition relating to suitability), and
(c) section 36, so far as it relates to the paragraphs referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this regulation.
Transitional Provision
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(1) Paragraph (2) applies to any application to the Tribunal made under Part 4 of the 1986 Act for a direction entitling the applicant to a tenancy of an agricultural holding on the death or retirement of a tenant where the date of death or the date of the giving of the retirement notice, as applicable, was before 1 September 2024.
(2) In relation to any application to which this paragraph applies, Part 4 of the 1986 Act continues to apply on and after 1 September 2024 as it had effect immediately before that date, as if the amendments made by paragraphs 10 to 16 and 18 of Schedule 3 to the 2020 Act had not come into force.
(3) In this regulation—
 “the 1986 Act” (“Deddf 1986”) means the Agricultural Holdings Act 1986;
 “application” (“cais”) includes any proceedings arising out of any such application or any direction given in any such proceedings.
(4) Expressions used in this regulation and in Part 4 of the 1986 Act have the same meaning as in that Part.
Huw Irranca-Davies
Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs, one of the Welsh Ministers
9 July 2024