{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/metropolitan-commons-act-1866/section-29",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/metropolitan-commons-act-1866/section-29.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/29-30/122",
  "legislation_title": "Metropolitan Commons Act 1866",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/metropolitan-commons-act-1866",
  "path": "section/29",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "29",
  "heading": "†Consent with respect to Crown or Duchy rights.",
  "text": "Where any estate, interest, or right, in, over, or affecting a common belongs to or is enjoyed by Her Majesty, in right of the Crown, or forms part of the possessions of the Duchy of Lancaster or of the Duchy of Cornwall, any consent for the purposes of any scheme under this Act may be given in respect of that estate, interest, or right as follows; namely,—\nIn the first-mentioned case, if the estate, interest, or right is under the management of the Crown Estate commissioners, then by those Commissioners or one of them, with the approval of the Treasury; and if it is under the management of the Secretary of State, then by the Secretary of State, with the like approval;\nIn the secondly-mentioned case, by the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster by writing under his hand attested by the clerk of the council of the Duchy;\nIn the thirdly-mentioned case, by the Duke of Cornwall, or other the persons for the time being empowered to dispose for any purpose of lands of the Duchy of Cornwall.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Forestry (Transfer of Woods) Act 1923 (c. 21), s. 4, S.R. & O. 1924/1370 (Rev. V p. 443: 1924 p. 228), Crown Lands Act 1927 (c. 23), s. 1, Crown Estate Act 1956 (c. 73), s. 1 and Crown Estate Act 1961 (c. 55), s. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of S.R. & O. 1945/991, art. 1 (Rev. XV p. 232: 1945 I p. 1414), S.I. 1962/1849, art. 2 and 1970/1651, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Unreliable marginal note."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/29-30/122/section/29",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:00:32.203887+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}