Crown Lands Act 1851

[F122 Duties of Commissioners of Woods, &c. in relation to royal parks, &c., and under the Acts in schedule, vested in Commissioners of Works.U.K.

The Commissioners of Works shall perform and exercise the duties and powers of management, and all other duties and powers which, if this Act had not been passed, would have been performed and exercised by the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings, of and in relation to the royal parks, gardens, and possessions herein-after mentioned; that is to say,

  • Saint James’s,

  • Hyde, and Parks,

  • Green

  • Kensington Gardens,

  • Chelsea Garden,

  • The Treasury Garden,

  • Parliament Square Garden,

  • Regent’s Park,

  • Primrose Hill,

  • Victoria Park,

  • Battersea Park,

  • Greenwich Park,

  • Kew Gardens, Pleasure Grounds, and Green,

  • Kew and Richmond Roads,

  • Hampton Court Gardens, Green, and Road,

  • Hampton Court Park,

  • Richmond Park and Green,

  • Bushey Park, F2. . . and

  • Holyrood Park;

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Textual Amendments

F3Words in s. 22 repealed (5.11.1993) by 1993 c. 50, s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. XIII.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C2Functions of Commissioners of Works in relation to Kew Gardens now exercisable by Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: S.R. & O. 1903/287 (1903 Rev. IX, Parks, p. 1), Board of Agriculture and Fisheries Act 1903 (c. 31), s. 1(1), Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Act 1919 (c. 91), s. 1(1) and S.I. 1955/554 (1955 I, p. 1200), art. 3