Metropolitan Commons Act 1878 (1878 c. 71)

1 Short title.

This Act shall be cited as the Metropolitan Commons Act 1878, and shall be read as forming one Act with the Metropolitan Commons Acts 1866 and 1869.

[M1] 1866 c. 122.

[M2] 1869 c. 107

2 Power to Metropolitan Board to acquire and hold common rights.

A London borough shall, in respect of any common the whole or part of which is situate within the borough, have the same power to purchase and hold, with a view to prevent the extinction of the rights of common, any saleable rights in common, or any tenement of a commoner having annexed thereto rights of common, as is conferred by the fifth paragraph of the eighth section of the Commons Act 1876 upon a district council in respect of a suburban common.

[F1] Words substituted by Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51, SIF 81:1), s. 16, Sch. 8 para. 10(2)

[M3] 1876 c. 56.

[F2] Words substituted by virtue of Local Government Act 1894 (c. 73), s. 21(1) and Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), s. 179(3)

3 Extension of certain provisions of 39 & 40 Vict. c. 56.

[F3] Words in s. 3 substituted (1.10.2006 for E., 6.9.2007 for W.) by Commons Act 2006 (c. 26), ss. 49(2), 56 (with s. 60); S.I. 2006/2504, art. 2(c); S.I. 2007/2386, art. 3(i)

Section 30 of the Commons Act 1876 shall, after the passing of this Act, apply to metropolitan commons within the meaning of the Metropolitan Commons Acts of 1866 and 1869.

[F3] Words in s. 3 substituted (1.10.2006 for E., 6.9.2007 for W.) by Commons Act 2006 (c. 26), ss. 49(2), 56 (with s. 60); S.I. 2006/2504, art. 2(c); S.I. 2007/2386, art. 3(i)