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Commons Act 1876
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27 Application of surplus rents of recreation grounds and field gardens. U.K.
. . . . . . F1 The surplus rents arising from recreation grounds shall . . . . . . F2 be applied to all or any of the following purposes, and to no other purpose; that is to say in improving the recreation grounds or any of them in the same parish or neighbourhood, or maintaining the drainage and fencing thereof, or in hiring or purchasing additional land for recreation grounds in the same parish or neighbourhood; and the surplus rents arising from field gardens shall . . . . . . F2 be applied to all or any of the following purposes, and to no other purpose; that is to say, in improving the field gardens or any of them in the same parish or neighbourhood, or maintaining the drainage and fencing thereof, or in hiring or purchasing additional land for field gardens in the same parish or neighbourhood.
The trustees of any recreation ground and the allotment wardens of any field gardens may, with the approval of the Inclosure Commissioners, sell all or any part of the allotment vested in them, and out of the proceeds of such sale purchase any fit and suitable land in the same parish or neighbourhood: Provided, that the land so purchased shall be held in trust for the purposes for which the allotment so sold as aforesaid was allotted, and for no others; and provided, that the Inclosure Commissioners shall not sanction any such sale as aforesaid unless and until it shall be proved to their satisfaction that land more suitable for the purposes for which the allotment proposed to be sold was allotted may and will be forthwith purchased; and the proceeds of any such sale shall be paid to the Inclosure Commissioners, and shall remain in their hands until such purchase of other land as aforesaid.
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F1Recital omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1894 (c. 56)
F2Words repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1894 (c. 56)
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C1S. 27 amended by Commons Act 1879 (c. 37) and Commons Act 1899 (c. 30), s. 16
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