Section 2 Power to Metropolitan Board to acquire and hold common rights.

F1A 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 M1Commons Act 1876 upon F2a district council in respect of a suburban common.