1Short title.

This Act may be cited for all purposes as " The Works and Public Buildings Act, 1874."

2Commissioners incorporated by 14 & 15 Vict. c.42 to have the powers conferred on subsequent Commissioners.

The Commissioners for the time being of Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings, as incorporated by and for the purposes of the Act of the fourteenth and fifteenth years of Her Majesty, chapter forty-two, are hereby declared to be, and shall be a Corporation to all intents and purposes, and as such shall have and hold, and may exercise not only all the Estates, property, interests, privileges, and powers now vested in or enjoyed by them under that Act, but also all estates, property, interests, privileges, and powers now vested in or held or enjoyed by the Commissioners of Her Majesty's "Works and Public Buildings as a Corporation under the Act of the fifteenth and sixteenth years of Her Majesty, chapter twenty-eight, or any subsequent Act, and in or by the Battersea Park Commissioners.

3Dissolution of Corporation created subsequent to 14 & 15 Vict.

The Corporation of the Battersea Park Commissioners, and all Corporations existing under the name of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings, except the Corporation hereby confirmed, are hereby dissolved, but not so as to affect prejudicially any existing rights or pending proceedings ; and the continuing Corporation shall perform all the duties, and be subject to and bear and discharge all the existing liabilities of all the dissolved Corporations out of the funds applicable to the same respectively, and shall have the benefit of all covenants and agreements entered into with any of the dissolved Corporations.

4Powers of Commissioners.

The First Commissioner and the other Commissioners for the time being of Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings, and all officers of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings, shall retain and have for the purposes of this Act in relation to the Corporation hereby confirmed all the powers and authorities given to or enjoyed by them in relation to any of the Corporations hereby dissolved, and also all the powers and authority given to or enjoyed by them by or under the said Acts of the fourteenth and fifteenth years and the fifteenth and sixteenth years of Her Majesty.

5Transfer of Dunfermline Palace, &c. from Commissioners of Woods to Commissioners of Works.

Prom and after the passing of this Act the Royal Palace of Dunfermline or ruins thereof, and so much of the land adjacent thereto as is now vested in or belongs to Her Majesty in right of Her Crown, and also the Royal Palace of Linlithgow or ruins thereof, and the peel or park surrounding the same, with the adjacent loch, also the King's Garden and Knott, being part of the Crown estate, Stirling, shall be and the same are hereby transferred from the management of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's "Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues to the management of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings, as if the said palaces and lands had been included in the twenty-second section of the said Act of the fourteenth and fifteenth years of Her Majesty, chapter forty-two.

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