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Recreation grounds. The (English) Recreation Grounds Act, 1859 (22 & 23 Vict. c. 27), facilitates grants of land near populous places for use in the regulated recreation of adults and as playgrounds for children; and ss. 76 and 77 of the (English) Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1907 (7 Edw. 7, c. 53), contain provisions for their regulation. See also OPEN SPACES....
Play-grounds
Play-grounds, See RECREATION GROUNDS....
Pleasure-grounds
Pleasure-grounds may be provided by local authorities under the (English) Public Health Act, 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 55), s. 164 (this s. coming in place of 11 & 12 Vict. c. 63, s. 74); and by parish councils under s. 8 of the Local Government Act, 1894, as amended by the Local Government Act, 1933. Rules prescribing restrictions and conditions can be made by virtue of s. 76 of the (English) Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1907. See RECREATION GROUNDS....
Common
Common, a profit which a man has in the land of another; it derives its name from the community of interest which thence arises between the claimant and the owner of the soil, or between the claimant and other commoners entitled to the same right; all which parties are entitled to bring actions for injuries done to their respective interests, and that both as against strangers and against each other. It is called an incorporeal right, which lies in grant, as if originally commencing in some agreement between lords and tenants, for some valuable consideration which, by lapse of time, being formed into a prescription, continues, although there be no deed or instrument in writing which proves the original contract or agreement. It differs from a rent, principally in freedom of enjoyment on the one hand, and in freedom from obligation on the other; which the law expresses by the quaint antithesis that it lies not in render but in prender. It is also incidentally distinguished by its fruits...
Parish Council
Parish Council. Established by the Local Govern-ment Act, 1894, s. 1 (see now Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), ss. 43-55), for every rural parish i.e., (every parish in a rural sanitary district) having a population of 300 or upwards, the county council having also power to group parishes under a common parish council, and being bound to establish a parish council if the parish meeting of a parish having a population of 100 or upwards so resolve, and having power to establish one with the consent of the parish meeting if the population be less than 100.The parish council is elected from among the parochial electors, or persons who have resided for twelve months in the parish or within three miles of it. The number of councillors is fixed by each county council within the limits of five and fifteen members. The term of office, which was by the Act of 1894 one year, was altered to three years by the Parish Councillors (Tenure of Office) Act, 1899, by which the councill...
Agricultural land
Agricultural land, 'means any land used as arable, meadow, or pasture ground only, cottage gardens exceeding one quarter of an acre, market gardens, nursery grounds, orchards or allotments, but doe not include land occupied together with a house as a park, gardens other than as aforesaid, pleasure grounds, or any land kept or preserved mainly or exclusively for purposes of sport or recreation, or land used as a racecourse.'-Agricultural Rates Act, 1896, s. 9. Compare definition of 'agriculture' in Small Holdings and Allotments Act, 1908, s. 61, as including 'horticulture, forestry and the use of land for any purpose of husbandry, inclusive of keeping or breeding of live stock, poultry or bees, and the growth of fruit, vegetables and the like.'Unless there was evidence that forest lands had been, in some way set apart or earmarked for or linked up with an agricultural purpose, by their owners or occupiers, it could not be held that they are agricultural lands, Controller of Estate duty ...
Playground
A piece of ground used for recreation as the playground of a school...
Development work
Development work, construction of the under-ground market is not intended and meant to destroy the intrinsic character of a public park but on the contrary, the scheme is to re-locate and re-develop the park as a public park as a place for public recreation. Construction of underground market is held to be development work, Calcutta Youth Front v. State of West Bengal, AIR 1988 SC 436 (439). [Calcutta Municipal Corporation Act, 1980 (59 of 1980), s. 353(2) Expl.]Development works, construction of schools, hospitals and community centres and other community buildings do not come within the purview of the term 'development works', D.L.F. Qutab Enclave Complex Educational Charitable Trust v. State of Haryana, (2003) 5 SCC 622 (634). [Haryana Development and Regulation of Urban Areas Rules 1976, R. 2(b)]...
Public Order Act, 1936
Public Order Act, 1936 (English) (1 Edw. 8 & 1 Geo. 6, c. 6). An Act to prohibit the wearing of uniforms in connection with political objects and the maintenance by private persons of associations of limitary or similar character, and to make further provision for the preservation of public order on the occasion of public processions and meetings and in public places.S. 1.-Prohibition of uniform in connection with political objects.S. 2.-Prohibition of quasi-military organizations.S. 3.-Confers powers for the preservation of public order on the occasion of processions.S. 4.-Prohibition of offensive weapons at public meetings and processions.S. 5.-Prohibition of offensive conduct conducive to breaches of the peace.S. 6.-Amendment of Public Meeting Act, 1908; see PUBLIC MEETING.S. 7.-Enforcement.S. 8.-Application to Scotland.S. 9.-Interpretation.S. 10.-Short title and extent.A person who commits an offence under s. 2 is liable on summary conviction to a maximum of 6 months' imprisonment ...
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