Metropolitan_Police_Act_1864

Metropolitan Police Act 1864

Metropolitan Police Act 1864

United Kingdom law

The Metropolitan Police Act 1864 (27 & 28 Vict. c. 55) was one of a series of Metropolitan Police Acts. It was wholly repealed by the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989.

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Provisions

The provisions of the act include:

  • Repealing Section 57 of the Metropolitan Police Act 1839 and replacing it with a section allowing street musicians to be fined no more than forty shillings or to be imprisoned for no more than three days.[3]

Sources

  1. [1]
    The citation of this Act by this short title was authorised by the Short Titles Act 1896, section 1 and the first schedule.  Due to the repeal of those provisions it is now authorised by section 19(2) of the Interpretation Act 1978.
  2. [2]
    "Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989 - Part IV Local Government". Legislation.gov.uk. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
  3. [3]
    A Collection of the Public General Statutes passed in the Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Years of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria: Being the Sixth Session of the Eighteenth Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode. 1864. p. 237.


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