SCHEDULE 8 Miscellaneous Functions
Commons
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(1)
In the first Schedule to the M1Metropolitan Commons Act 1866 for the first entry in the second column there shall be substituted “The council of the London borough within which the whole or part is situate or, where there are two or more boroughs within which parts are situate and the councils of those boroughs agree that one of them shall be the local authority in relation to the whole, that council.”.
(2)
In section 2 of the M2Metropolitan Commons Act 1878 for the words from the beginning to “1855” there shall be substituted the words “A London borough shall, in respect of any common the whole or part of which is situate within the borough,”.
(3)
In the Schedule to the M3Commonable Rights Compensation Act 1882 for the first entry in the second column there shall be substituted “The council of the London borough within which the land is situate”.
(4)
In section 1(3) of the M4Commons Act 1908, after the word “county”, there shall be inserted the words “or metropolitan district”.
(5)
In sections 193(1)(d)(ii) and 194(3)(b) of the M5Law of Property Act 1925, after the word “county”, there shall be inserted the words “or metropolitan district”.
(6)
In section 2(1) of the M6Commons Registration Act 1965—
(a)
in paragraph (a), after the words “that county”, there shall be inserted the words “or, if the county is a metropolitan county, the council of the metropolitan district in which the land is situated”; and
(b)
in paragraph (b) for the words “Greater London Council” there shall be substituted the words “council of the London borough in which the land is situated”.