The Crown Lands Act 1851 (14 & 15 Vict. c. 42) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that established the Commissioners of Works as the body responsible for management of royal parks and gardens, specifically; Saint James's Park Hyde Park Green Park Kensington Gardens Chelsea Garden Treasury Garden Parliament Square Garden Regent's Park Primrose Hill Victoria Park Battersea Park Greenwich Park Kew Gardens, Pleasure Grounds, and Green Kew and Richmond Roads Hampton Court Gardens, Green, and Road Hampton Court Park Richmond Park and Richmond Green Bushey Park Holyrood Park
Subsequent developments In section 3, the words " and for the purpose of such Acts the Commissioners of Woods shall be a corporation in the place of the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works and Buildings ", and section 5 of the act were repealed by section 1 of, and the first schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1953 (2 & 3 Eliz. 2. c. 5), which came into force on 18 December 1953.
Sections 1 and 2 of the act were repealed by section 2 of, and the second schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1958 (6 & 7 Eliz. 2. c. 46), which came into force on 23 July 1958.
See also Crown Lands Act
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