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- 1 2 "Scottish Agricultural Wages Board". Scottish Government. Retrieved 17 October 2022.
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- ↑ "Agricultural Wages Board abolished in England, while Scottish AWB increase minimum wages". www.lindsays.co.uk. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
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