Whereas there are divers Corporations created by the various Acts of Parliament mentioned in the first schedule to this Act, and now subsisting under the same name of 10 The Commissioners of Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings," and the Commissioners for the time being of Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings are also incorporated under the name of the Battersea Park Commissioners, by the Act mentioned in the second schedule to this Act, and it is expedient that all such Corporations should be amalgamated :

And whereas it is also expedient that certain royal properties now under the management of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues should be placed under the management of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Works and Public Buildings :