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OPEN SPACES ACT 1906 - SECT 8

Special resolutions and consents.

8.(1) A resolution shall for the purposes of this Act be a special resolution
when it has been

(a)passed by a majority of at least two-thirds of the persons present at a
meeting summoned as hereinafter provided; and

(b)confirmed by another resolution passed by a majority of at least two-thirds
of the persons present at a meeting summoned as hereinafter provided and held
after an interval of not less than one month from the first meeting.

(2) A meeting of trustees for the purposes of this Act shall be summoned by a
notice stating generally the object of the meeting, which notice shall be left
at or sent by post, at least one month before the date of the meeting, to the
last known or usual place of abode of each trustee.

(3) A meeting of owners and occupiers of houses under this Act shall be
summoned by a notice stating generally the object of the meeting, which notice
shall be left at, or sent through the post to, each of such houses, at least
one month before the date of the meeting, and shall be inserted as an
advertisement at least three times in any two or more papers circulating in
the neighbourhood.

(4) If at any meeting of trustees or of owners and occupiers under this Act a
resolution with respect to an open space is rejected, no meeting of the
trustees, or, as the case may be, the owners or occupiers, shall be called or
held with the same object and with respect to the same open space until the
expiration of three years from the date of the rejection.

(5) A meeting of owners or occupiers of houses for the purposes of this Act
shall not be held between the first day of August in one year and the
thirty-first day of January in the following year.

Power of local authority to acquire open space or burial ground.



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