Metropolitan Police Act 1857

Metropolitan Police Act 1857[a]
Act of Parliament
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long titleAn Act for raising a Sum of Money for building and improving Stations of the Metropolitan Police, and to amend the Acts concerning the Metropolitan Police.[1]
Citation20 & 21 Vict. c. 64
Territorial extent United Kingdom
Dates
Royal assent25 August 1857
Commencement25 August 1857[b]
Other legislation
Amended by
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

The Metropolitan Police Act 1857[a] (20 & 21 Vict. c. 64) was an Act of Parliament of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The act was one of the Metropolitan Police Acts, granted royal assent on 25 August 1857.[1] It enabled the Metropolitan Police's Receiver to borrow on the Police Rates to raise a sum of £60,000 to spend on purpose-built police stations to replace the lock-ups it had inherited from the parish constable system.[1] It also authorised him to top up the Police Superannuation Fund (an early form of police pension fund) from other Met funds if necessary.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ a b The citation of this act by this short title was authorised by section 1 of, and the first schedule to, the Short Titles Act 1896. Due to the repeal of those provisions it is now authorised by section 19(2) of the Interpretation Act 1978.
  2. ^ The Acts of Parliament (Commencement) Act 1793.

References

  1. ^ a b c d "A collection of the public general statutes passed in the twentieth and twenty-first years of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, being the first session of the seventeenth parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, 1857, pages 237-242". 26 December 2023.
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