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Metropolitan Police Act 1829 (c. 44)

Metropolitan Police Act 1829 1829 CHAPTER 44 10 Geo 4 An Act for improving the Police in and near the Metropolis. [19th June 1829] Whereas offences against property have of late increased in and near the metropolis; and the local establishments of nightly watch and nightly police have been found inadequate to the prevention and detection of crime, by reason of the frequent unfitness of the individuals employed, the insufficiency of their number, the limited sphere of their authority, and their want of connection and co-operation with each other: And whereas it is expedient to substitute a new and more efficient system of police in lieu of such establishments of nightly watch and nightly police, within the limits herein-after mentioned, and to constitute an office of police, which, acting under the immediate authority of one of his Majesty’s principal secretaries of state, shall direct and control the whole of such new system of police within those limits:

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1. His Majesty may establish a new police office for the metropolis and the surrounding district, and may appoint two persons as justices, to conduct the business of the office, under the directions of a secretary of state. U.K.

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4. Westminster, and parts of Middlesex, Surrey, and Kent, to be formed into one district, to be called “the metropolitan police district.” A police force for the whole district to be appointed. U.K.

5. The justices, subject to the approbation of a secretary of state, may make regulations for the management of the police force. U.K.

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10. His Majesty may appoint a person to be the receiver of all monies applicable to the purposes of this Act, who shall give security. The money to be placed in the Bank of England, and drawn out by the receiver. U.K.

11. Receiver’s accounts to be audited. U.K.

12. Salaries and wages of policemen to be regulated by the secretary of state. Rewards for activity, and superannuation allowances. U.K.

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22. Power to set up watchboxes. U.K.

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5. The justices, subject to the approbation of a secretary of state, may make regulations for the management of the police force. U.K.

6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F9 U.K.

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11. Receiver’s accounts to be audited. U.K.

12. Salaries and wages of policemen to be regulated by the secretary of state. Rewards for activity, and superannuation allowances. U.K.

13. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F17 U.K.

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22. Power to set up watchboxes. U.K.

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Section 1

1. His Majesty may establish a new police office for the metropolis and the surrounding district, and may appoint two persons as justices, to conduct the business of the office, under the directions of a secretary of state. U.K.

It shall be lawful for his Majesty to cause a new police office to be established in the city of Westminster, [ F1 and from time to time by warrant under his sign manual to appoint during His Majesty’s pleasure a Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis to execute the duties of chief officer of the police force hereby established ] , . . . F2 , together with such other duties as shall be herein-after specified, or as shall be from time to time directed by one of his Majesty’s principal secretaries of state, for the more efficient administration of the police within the limits herein-after mentioned; . . . F3 Textual Amendments F1 Words substituted by Administration of Justice Act 1973 (c. 15) , Sch. 1 para. 10(1) F2 Words repealed by Justices of the Peace Act 1968 (c. 69) , Sch. 5 Pt. I F3 Words repealed by Administration of Justice Act 1973 (c. 15) , s. 20(6) , Sch. 5 Pt. II Modifications etc. (not altering text) C4 Unreliable marginal note C5 S. 1 amended by Administration of Justice Act 1973 (c. 15) , Sch. 1 para. 10(1)

Section 2

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Textual Amendments F4 S. 2 repealed by Administration of Justice Act 1973 (c. 15) , s. 20(6) , Sch. 5 Pt. II

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Metropolitan Police Act 1829 (c. 44)

1. His Majesty may establish a new police office for the metropolis and the surrounding district, and may appoint two persons as justices, to conduct the business of the office, under the directions of a secretary of state. U.K.

2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F4 U.K.

Metropolitan Police Act 1829 (c. 44)

1. His Majesty may establish a new police office for the metropolis and the surrounding district, and may appoint two persons as justices, to conduct the business of the office, under the directions of a secretary of state. U.K.

2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F4 U.K.