Metropolitan Commons Act 1878
1878 c.71
An Act to extend to Metropolitan Commons certain provisions of the Commons Act, 1876.
[16th August 1878]
Preamble omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1894 (c. 56)

1 Short title.
This Act shall be cited as the Metropolitan Commons Act 1878, and shall be read as forming one Act with the Metropolitan Commons Acts 1866 and 1869.
1866 c. 122.
1869 c. 107

2 Power to Metropolitan Board to acquire and hold common rights.
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.
Words substituted by Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51, SIF 81:1), s. 16, Sch. 8 para. 10(2)
1876 c. 56.
Words substituted by virtue of Local Government Act 1894 (c. 73), s. 21(1) and Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), s. 179(3)

3 Extension of certain provisions of 39 & 40 Vict. c. 56.
Section 30 of the Commons Act 1876 shall, after the passing of this Act, apply to metropolitan commons within the meaning of the Metropolitan Commons Acts of 1866 and 1869.
Words in s. 3 substituted (1.10.2006 for E., 6.9.2007 for W.) by Commons Act 2006 (c. 26), ss. 49(2), 56 (with s. 60); S.I. 2006/2504, art. 2(c); S.I. 2007/2386, art. 3(i)