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Metropolitan Commons Act 1878 1878 c.71 An Act to extend to Metropolitan Commons certain provisions of the Commons Act, 1876. [16th August 1878]
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Metropolitan Commons Act 1878
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4 provisions
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.
Propose a change2 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.
Propose a change3 Extension of certain provisions of 39 & 40 Vict. c. 56.
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.
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