Preliminary

1 Short title.

This Act may be cited for all purposes as “The Dean Forest (Mines) Act 1871.”

2 Interpretation. C1

In this Act—

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  • The term “principal Acts” shall mean the Act of 1838 and the M1Dean Forest Act 1861:

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3 Limits of Act.

This Act shall apply to and be in force within the limits of the principal Acts, that is to say, within the whole of Her Majesty’s Forest of Dean, and of the Hundred of Saint Briavels, excepting only such lands being part of the same and belonging to Her Majesty or to any of Her Majesty’s subjects to which the provisions of the principal Acts do not extend, in consequence of notices on behalf of Her Majesty, or other the owner or owners of the said lands, having been given with respect to the same, under the provisions of the sixty-eighth section of the Act of 1838.

4 Construction of Act.

The principal Acts, so far as not inconsistent with this Act, and this Act shall be construed together and read as one Act.