# Commons Act 1879, Introduction: Introductory text


An Act to amend the Commons Act, 1876.
[11th August 1879]
Whereas by section twenty-seven of the Commons Act 1876, the surplus rents arising from recreation grounds shall be applied to all or any of the following purposes, and to no other purpose, that is to say, in improving the recreation grounds or any of them in the same parish or neighbourhood, or maintaining the drainage and fencing thereof, or in hiring or purchasing additional land for recreation grounds in the same parish or neighbourhood:

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/42-43/37/introduction (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/commons-act-1879/introduction
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