(1)Any land which is, or forms part of, a metropolitan common within the meaning of the M1Metropolitan Commons Act, 1866, or which is subject to regulation under an order or scheme made in pursuance of the Inclosure Acts, 1845 to 1899, or under any local Act or otherwise, or which is or forms part of any town or village green, or of any area dedicated or appropriated as a public park, garden, or pleasure ground, or for use for the purposes of public recreation, shall not be appropriated under this Act by a council for small holdings or allotments, and shall not be acquired by a council or by the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries under the principal Act except under the authority of an order for compulsory purchase made under the principal Act, which so far as it relates to such land shall be provisional only, and shall not have effect unless it is confirmed by Parliament.
(2)The Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, in giving or withholding their consent under this Act to the appropriation and in confirming an order for compulsory acquisition by a council for the purpose of small holdings or allotments of any land which forms part of any common, and in the exercise by the Board of their powers of acquiring land under this Act, shall have regard to the same considerations and shall hold the same inquiries as are directed by the M2Commons Act, 1876, to be taken into consideration and held by the Board before forming an opinion whether an application under the Inclosure Acts shall be acceded to or not. Any consent by the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries for the appropriation of land forming part of any common for the purpose of small holdings or allotments shall be laid before Parliament while Parliament is sitting, and, if within twenty-one days in either House of Parliament a motion is carried dissenting from such appropriation, the order of the Board shall be cancelled.
(3)Where an order for compulsory purchase to which this section applies or a consent by the Board to the appropriation of land provides for giving other land in exchange for the common or open space to be purchased or appropriated, the order for compulsory purchase or an order made by the Board in relation to the consent for appropriation may vest the land given in exchange in the persons in whom the common or open space purchased or appropriated was vested subject to the same rights, trusts, and incidents as attached to the common or open space and discharges the land purchased or appropriated from all rights, trusts, and incidents to which it was previously subject.
(4)Nothing in the principal Act shall be deemed to authorise the acquisition of any land which forms part of the trust property to which the M3National Trust Act, 1907, applies.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C2Functions of Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food under s. 28 as to commons now exercisable by Secretary of State: S.I. 1965/143, 1967/156 and 1970/1681
Marginal Citations
M31907 c. cxxxvi.
Textual Amendments
F1S. 29 repealed by Settled Land Act 1925 (c. 18), s. 119, Sch. 5
Textual Amendments
F2Ss. 30,33 repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1927 (c. 42)
Textual Amendments
F3S. 31 repealed (5.11.1993) by 1993 c. 50, s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt.II
(1)This Act, so far as it amends the principal Act, shall be construed as one with that Act, and references in this Act to the principal Act, or to any provision of the principal Act, shall, where the context permits, be construed as references to the principal Act, or the provisions of the principal Act as amended by this Act.
(2)References to small holdings provided, and to land acquired, under the principal Act shall be construed as including references to small holdings provided and land acquired under any enactment repealed by the principal Act.
Textual Amendments
F4Ss. 30,33 repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1927 (c. 42)
This Act may be cited as the Land Settlement (Facilities) Act, 1919, and the M4Small Holdings and Allotments acts, 1908 and M51910, and so much of this Act as amends those Acts may be cited together as the Small Holdings and Allotments Acts, 1908 to 1919.