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Powers of district council as to recreation ground and public walks.
41 & 42 Vict. c. 52.
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36.—(1) An urban district council, and if so authorised by order of the Local Government Board a rural district council, may—
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(a) acquire, purchase, or take on lease, lay out, plant, improve, and maintain land for a recreation ground or public walk; and
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(b) support or contribute to the support of a recreation ground or public walk, or contribute towards the purchase or cost of the laying out, planting, or improvement of any recreation ground or public walk, when provided by any person and permanently dedicated as such; and
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(c) make byelaws for the regulation of any such recreation ground or public walk, and by such byelaws provide for the removal from such recreation ground or public walk, by any officer of the said council or a constable, of any person infringing any such byelaw.
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(2) The recreation ground or public walk may be either within or without the district of the council, if it is convenient for the use of the inhabitants of such district.
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(3) Any expenses incurred under this section by a district council shall be defrayed as expenses under the Public Health Act, 1878.
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(4) The acquisition of land for the purpose of this section shall be deemed to be a purpose for which land may be acquired under the Public Health Act, 1878, and the provisions of that Act with respect to the acquisition of land shall apply accordingly.
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(5) Sections two hundred and nineteen to two hundred and twenty-three of the Public Health Act, 1878, shall apply to the byelaws made under this section.
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