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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/metropolitan-commons-act-1878/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/metropolitan-commons-act-1878/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/41-42/71",
  "legislation_title": "Metropolitan Commons Act 1878",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/metropolitan-commons-act-1878",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Power to Metropolitan Board to acquire and hold common rights.",
  "text": "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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51, SIF 81:1), s. 16, Sch. 8 para. 10(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Local Government Act 1894 (c. 73), s. 21(1) and Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), s. 179(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1876 c. 56."
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/41-42/71/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:45:02.036150+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."
}