Act No. 27 / 1949 Coll.
Act on the Mechanisation of Agriculture
Valid
Effective from 20.02.1949
27.
Law
of 2 February 1949
on the mechanisation of agriculture.
The National Assembly of the Czechoslovak Republic decided on the following Act:
(1) In order to raise Czechoslovak agriculture, in particular to increase its production capacity and reduce its production costs and to help small and medium-sized farmers effectively, the State will support agricultural mechanisation, including forestry.
(2) The management and control of agricultural mechanisation are the responsibility of the Ministry of Agriculture, the field of which includes in particular:
(a) organise and manage research into agricultural machinery, choose the most appropriate methods of agricultural mechanisation according to the natural conditions and needs of agricultural production, determine the most efficient agricultural machinery and decide on its introduction into agriculture;
(b) establish Advisory Councils and invite scientific and research institutes to cooperate;
(c) organise and manage training of persons for the operation and repair of agricultural machinery;
(d) to assist, monitor and take the necessary measures to ensure that, in the interests of small and medium-sized farmers and the fulfilment of the production plan, the Act of 1 April 1947, No 55 Coll., on the aid to farmers in the implementation of the agricultural production plan, as amended by the Law of 6 May 1948, No 132 Coll., as regards agricultural machinery, in particular to empower district national committees to take action in accordance with that Act to the local national committees, if local national committees do not do so;
(e) manage the allocation of agricultural machinery;
(f) to grant aid for the mechanisation of agricultural production and agricultural household;
(g) to supervise the proper maintenance of agricultural machinery.
(3) Agricultural mechanisation means means means which are used to mechanise agriculture and are subject to agricultural planning.
(1) The headquarters and its components (§ 2 (2)) are responsible in particular for:
(a) to provide assistance to the agricultural sector and to correct the agricultural machinery for remuneration;
(b) to conduct training and training of persons for the operation and repair of agricultural machinery for their own use and for remuneration;
(c) provide local agricultural cooperatives with continuous assistance in administrative, technical and operational matters;
(d) draw up, together with local agricultural cooperatives, a plan to provide assistance to agriculture, to participate in the implementation of the plan and to carry out its control,
(e) to conclude priority contracts with cooperatives and tradesmen, following the exclusive implementation of repairs to agricultural equipment and to supply them with replacement parts of agricultural equipment for such repairs. If the public interest so requires, these persons shall be required to conclude such a contract, as decided by the District National Committee. Replacement parts for the repair of agricultural equipment may be held only by national undertakings and the Central Office or by other persons under its responsibility,
(f) conclude contracts with cooperatives and other persons on the implementation of individual agricultural work;
g) to propose to the district and local national committees the necessary measures on agricultural machinery pursuant to Act No. 55 / 1947 Coll. as amended by Act No. 132 / 1948 Coll. to ensure that agricultural work in municipalities is fully used by state machinery stations and local agricultural cooperatives with machinery activities.
(2) In the absence of full use of the agricultural mechanisational resources of the Centre in agriculture, the Centre is entitled and obliged to use them in return for other important tasks.
(1) In order to carry out the mechanisms for agriculture, basic agricultural machinery from physical persons may be purchased for the Centre, unless the production or maintenance plan is fulfilled or the means of production are used. The purchase procedure shall be carried out on a proposal from the Centre of the District National Committee and, according to its decision, the physical persons concerned shall be required to sell the agricultural equipment. In addition, the district national committee may carry out purchasing procedures for local agricultural cooperatives with machinery as regards the basic agricultural mechanisms of physical persons who have received them on a voucher issued to the cooperative or on a voucher issued to individuals and co-users (i.e. a free association).
(2) The free association is allowed to join or transform into a local agricultural cooperative with machinery.
(3) The details, in particular the definition of the concept of basic agricultural machinery, the method of their redemption and the manner and amount of the purchase price, shall be laid down by the Ministry of Agriculture by a decree in the Official Journal.
(3) Where, in the interest of the public interest, the Centre carries out, by order of the Government or the Minister for Agriculture, work, supplies and services or other transactions which are not directly related to its operation or burden such operations with disproportionate expenditure, it shall be entitled to reimbursement of the costs incurred by the Office in carrying out the order. This refund, its amount and the way it is paid shall be decided by the Government, which shall at the same time determine the sector of the State Administration which grants the refund.
(1) The staff of the Department of Agricultural Machinery Stations of the State Forests and Goods and Staff of the Institute for the Mechanisation of Agricultural Production in Slovakia (Section 4), as well as the civil servants who will be assigned to the Services of the Institute, are transferred to the Service of the Institute and become its staff in private employment.
(2) The Centre shall adapt the employment and wage ratios of the staff of the Centre to the Staff Regulations approved by the Ministry of Social Welfare. If these employees have been in a pragmatic or regulated service relationship so far, the government shall, by regulation, adjust their pension security.
(3) Before the provisions referred to in paragraph 2 are adopted, staff members who have been in a pragmatic or regulated service relationship shall remain exempt from national pension insurance and shall continue to be subject to their pension arrangements, and to their employment (service) and salary (salary) ratios, with the exception of the provisions relating to individual staff measures; such jurisdiction shall be transferred exclusively to the administrative authorities of the Central Office.
(4) Pension arrangements for employees of the Department of Agricultural Machinery Stations of the Company State Forests and Goods and the Institute for the Mechanisation of Agricultural Production in Slovakia (Section 4) in a pragmatic or regulated service relationship whose active employment relationship ends before the establishment of the Institute under this Act and their survivors remain intact. The Government shall lay down rules on the procedure for the provision of such measures by means of a regulation; the provisions of paragraph 3 shall apply mutatis mutandis until its issue.
(5) The Ministers of Finance and Agriculture and the Chairman of the Supreme Audit Office will determine the share and manner in which the State and the Central Office will pay the cost of the pension benefits, including the salaries authorised by discretion, the staff of the Central Office and their survivors, as well as the former staff of the Centre of Agricultural Machinery Stations of the State Forests and Goods and the former staff of the Institute for the Mechanisation of Agricultural Production in Slovakia (§ 4) and their survivors.
(1) The central authorities shall proceed in matters relating to the mechanisation of agriculture in cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture.
(2) The Ministry of Agriculture may, by means of an order in the Official Gazette, delegate tasks arising from this Act, other bodies or the Institute, to other national undertakings.
The documents and library entries required in connection with the establishment of the Institute and the contracts for carrying out agricultural work concluded by the Institute with cooperatives or other persons shall be exempt from the fees.
Regulation No 33 / 1946 of the Slovak National Council Coll. n. SNR and the Implementing Regulation of the Assembly of Mandates No 79 / 1946 Coll. SNR are deleted.
This Act shall take effect on the day of its publication; it shall be implemented by the Minister for Agriculture in agreement with the participating members of the Government.
Gottwald v. r.
Dr John v. r.
Zaporocký v. r.
Děuriš v. r.
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Regulation Information
| Citation | Act No. 27 / 1949 Coll., on the Mechanisation of Agriculture |
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| Regulation Type | - |
| Author | - |
| Collection | Code of Laws |
| Date of Promulgation | 20.02.1949 |
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| Effective from | 20.02.1949 |
| Effective until | - |
| Status | Valid |
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