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An Act to amend and explain the Inclosure Acts.
[10th August 1857]
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C1Short title given by Short Titles Act 1896 (c. 14)
C2Functions of Inclosure Commissioners of England and Wales now exercisable by Secretary of State: Settled Land Act 1882 (c. 38), s. 48(1), Board of Agriculture Act 1889 (c. 30), s. 2(1)(b), Sch. 1 Pt. II, Board of Agriculture and Fisheries Act 1903 (c. 31), s. 1(1), Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Act 1919 (c. 91), s. 1, S.I. 1955/554 (1955 I, p. 1200), 1965/143, 1967/156 and 1970/1681
C3 “The said Acts” means the Acts for the inclosure, exchange and improvement of land
C4Preamble (which recites the Acts for the inclosure, exchange and improvement of land) omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1892 (c. 19)
Act: powers transferred (1.7.1999) by virtue of S.I. 1999/672, art. 2, Sch.1
In any case of inclosure in which it shall appear to the Inclosure Commissioners of England and Wales to be unnecessary that all or any of the allotments to be made under the award of the valuer acting in the matter of such inclosure should be fenced, it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners, by an order under their hands and seal, if they shall see fit to dispense with the erection of boundary and other fences, to direct that such allotments or any of them shall be distinguished be metes and bounds: Provided nevertheless, that any person interested in an allotment may at any time fence the same at his own expense.
So long as any of such allotments remain unfenced, the same shall be subject to the provisions of the said Acts relating to regulated pastures, in such manner as the valuer, with the approbation of the said Commissioners, shall by his award direct; and the owners thereof shall enjoy all such rights of common by reason of vicinage as they were entitled to prior to the setting out of such allotments.
Where by the said Acts notice is required to be given to any designated person, F1. . . such notice may be given or claim delivered either by sending it by the post in a registered letter, or by leaving it at the office or usual place of abode of such person F1. . ..
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F1Words in s. 3 repealed (19.11.1998) by 1998 c. 43, s. 1, Sch. 1 Pt.VI
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C5Reference to registered letter to be construed as including reference to letter sent by recorded delivery service: Recorded Delivery Service Act 1962 (c. 27), s. 1(1)(2), Sch. para. 1
[F2For the purpose of removing all doubts as to the power of companies incorporated by special Act of Parliament for the making and maintaining of any railway, canal, docks, harbour, waterworks, or other work, to exchange land belonging to such companies under the provisions of the said Acts, be it declared and enacted, that every such company shall be deemed to be a person interested within the meaning of “The Acts for the Inclosure, Exchange, and Improvement of Land,” for the purpose of exchanging land belonging to the said company, and that notwithstanding the provisions in any Act of Parliament relating to such company specially limiting the purposes to which such land belonging to the said company shall be applicable.]
Textual Amendments
F2S. 4 repealed (E.W.) (1.10.2007 for E., 1.4.2012 for W.) by Commons Act 2006 (c. 26), s. 56, Sch. 6 Pt. 3 (with s. 60); S.I. 2007/2584, art. 2(d)(ii) (with art. 3); S.I. 2012/739, art. 2(h) (with art. 4)
[F3In case any person interested according to the definition contained in the sixteenth section of the M1Inclosure Act 1845 shall apply to the Inclosure Commissioners for an order of exchange of any land in which Her Majesty, her heirs or successors, have any estate or interest in right of the Crown, in reversion or remainder expectant upon the determination of any estate for life or other larger interest, it shall be lawful for the Inclosure Commissioners to make such order of exchange, if they shall so think fit, provided that the consent of Her Majesty shall have been previously signified thereto by some writing under the hand of one of [F4the Crown Estate Commissioners]; and every such order of exchange which shall be made with such consent shall be valid and effectual to all intents and purposes whatsoever, and shall be binding upon Her Majesty; and a duplicate thereof shall in every case be deposited in [F5the Public Record Office]: Provided always, that in case any such order shall, previously to the passing of this Act, have been made upon the application of any person as above mentioned, with the said consent previously signified as aforesaid, every such order shall be as valid and effectual, and be in like manner binding upon Her Majesty, as if the said consent had been given under the provisions of this Act.]
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F3S. 5 repealed (E.W.) (1.10.2007 for E., 1.4.2012 for W.) by Commons Act 2006 (c. 26), s. 56, Sch. 6 Pt. 3 (with s. 60); S.I. 2007/2584, art. 2(d)(ii) (with art. 3); S.I. 2012/739, art. 2(h) (with art. 4)
F4Words substituted by virtue of Forestry (Transfer of Woods) Act 1923 (c. 21), s. 4, S.R. & O. 1924/1370 (Rev. V, p. 443: 1924, p. 228), Crown Lands Act 1927 (c. 23), s. 1, Crown Estate Act 1956 (c. 73), s. 1 and Crown Estate Act 1961 (c. 55), s. 1(1)
F5Words substituted by virtue of Crown Estate Act 1961 (c. 55), Sch. 2 Pt. II para. 5(1)
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F6Ss. 6–9 repealed by Rentcharges Act 1977 (c. 30), Sch. 2
Every such rentcharge shall be a valid and indefeasible charge upon the land charged therewith by the confirmed inclosure award or the confirmed order of exchange or partition (as the case may be), subject only to tithe rentcharges, . . . . . . F7, local rates and taxes, quit or chief rents incidental to tenure, and charges created or to be created under any Act authorizing advances of public or private money for drainage or the improvement of lands, and prior to all other charges whatsoever, and shall be recoverable in the same manner as a tithe rentcharge charged under the Tithe M2Act 1836.
Every rentcharge created under this Act shall be and enure to, for, and upon the same uses, trusts, intents, and purposes, and be subject to the same conditions, charges, and incumbrances, as the land or hereditaments in respect of the deficiency in value whereof such rentcharge is made payable will stand and be limited and subject to after the confirmation of the inclosure award or the order of exchange or partition (as the case may be).
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C6S. 11 so far as it requires rentcharges to be conveyed to uses now takes effect as a direction that such rentcharges shall be conveyed to persons of full age upon the requisite trusts: Law of Property Act 1925 (c. 20), s. 1(9)
And whereas it is expedient to provide summary means of preventing nuisances in town greens and village greens, and on land allotted and awarded upon any inclosure under the said Acts as a place for exercise and recreation: If any person wilfully cause any injury or damage to any fence of any such town or village green or land, or wilfully and without lawful authority lead or drive any cattle or animal thereon, or wilfully lay any manure, soil, ashes, or rubbish, or other matter or thing thereon, or do any other act whatsoever to the injury of such town or village green or land, or to the interruption of the use or enjoyment thereof as a place for exercise and recreation, such person shall for every such offence, upon a summary conviction thereof before two justices, upon the information of any churchwarden or overseer of the parish in which such town or village green or land is situate, or of the person in whom the soil of such town or village green or land may be vested, forfeit and pay, in any of the cases aforesaid, and for each and every such offence, over and above the damages occasioned thereby, any sum not exceeding [F8level 1 on the standard scale]; and it shall be lawful for any such churchwarden or overseer or other person as aforesaid to sell and dispose of any such manure, soil, ashes, and rubbish, or other matter or thing as aforesaid; and the proceeds arising from the sale thereof, and every such penalty as aforesaid, shall, as regards any such town, or village green not awarded under the said Acts or any of them to be used as a place for exercise and recreation, be applied in aid of the rates for the repair of the public highways in the parish, and shall, as regards the land so awarded, be applied by the persons or person in whom the soil thereof may be vested in the due maintenance of such land as a place for exercise and recreation; and if any manure, soil, ashes, or rubbish be not of sufficient value to defray the expense of removing the same, the person who laid or deposited such manure, soil, ashes, or rubbish shall repay to such churchwarden or overseer or other person as aforesaid the money necessarily expended in the removal thereof; and every such penalty as aforesaid shall be recovered in manner provided by the M3Summary Jurisdiction Act 1848; and the amount of damage occasioned by any such offence as aforesaid shall, in case of dispute, be determined by the justices by whom the offender is convicted; and the payment of the amount of such damage, and the repayments of the money necessarily expended in the removal of any manure, soil, ashes, or rubbish, shall be enforced in like manner as any such penalty.
Textual Amendments
F8Words substituted by virtue of Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), ss. 38, 46
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C7S. 12 extended by Commons Act 1876 (c. 56),s. 29
C8References to churchwarden or overseer of the parish to be construed as references, as respects greens or land in parish, to parish council or parish meeting, as respects greens or land in community, to community council and, as respects any other greens or land, to district council and in last mentioned case reference to highways in the parish to be construed as reference to highways in the district: Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), s. 189(3)
C9Reference to rates for the repair of the public highway except in application of s. 12 to City of London and Temples to be construed as reference to general rate: General Rate Act 1967 (c. 9), s. 116(2)
C10S. 12 excluded (E.W.S.) (9.1.2014) by The Ashton Vale to Temple Meads and Bristol City Centre Rapid Transit Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/3244), arts. 1, 61(3) (with arts. 57, 58, Sch. 11 para. 19)
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F9S. 13 repealed (19.11.1998) by 1998 c. 43, s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt.VI
This Act shall be taken to be a part of the said Acts, and shall be construed therewith, and be deemed to be included under any reference to “The Acts for the Inclosure, Exchange, and Improvement of Land.”
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