Section 15 Application of compensation for common rights paid under 8 & 9 Vict. c. 18.

Where any money shall have been or may hereafter be paid to a committee under the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act 1845 or under any railway or other special Act by which money may have been directed or authorized to be paid to a committee as compensation for the extinction of commonable or other rights, or for lands, being common lands or in the nature thereof, the right to the soil of which may have belonged to the commoners, and the majority of such committee shall be of opinion that the provisions of such Act for the apportionment thereof cannot be satisfactorily carried into effect, such majority may make application in writing to the commissioners to call a meeting of the persons interested in such compensation money, to determine whether or not such compensation money shall be apportioned under the provisions of this Act.