# Metropolitan Commons Act 1878

41 & 42 Vict. c. 71 · enacted 16 August 1878 · revised to 6 September 2007

An Act to extend to Metropolitan Commons certain provisions of the Commons Act, 1876.

## Introductory text

An Act to extend to Metropolitan Commons certain provisions of the Commons Act, 1876.
[16th August 1878]

## 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.

## 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.

## 3 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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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/41-42/71 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/metropolitan-commons-act-1878
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