Metropolitan Police Act 1886
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1886 c. 22 |
| Year | 1886 |
Metropolitan Police Act, 1886
(49 & 50 Vict.) CHAPTER 22.
An Act to amend the Enactments relating to Offices, Stations, and Buildings for the Metropolitan Police Force.
[4th June 1886]
W HEREAS it is expedient to define and extend the powers of the receiver for the metropolitan police district (in this Act referred to as the police receiver) in relation to the construction of a central office and police stations, offices, and buildings for the metropolitan police force, and to the purchasing of land for such central office, stations, offices, and buildings, and to authorise the raising of a loan for the purposes aforesaid on the security of the metropolitan police fund:
And whereas the power conferred by the Metropolitan Police Act, 1857, on the police receiver to borrow on the security of the rates raised for the purposes of the metropolitan police force has never been exercised, and by reason of the time fixed for the repayment of the loan cannot now be exercised; and it is expedient to confer a power to borrow:
Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
1 Short title.
1. This Act may be cited as theMetropolitan Police Act, 1886. The Acts mentioned in the First Schedule to this Act may be cited by the short titles respectively in that schedule mentioned.
This Act and the Metropolitan Police Acts, 1829 to 1884, and the Acts mentioned in the First Schedule to this Act, and the Police Expenses Act, 1875, so far as it relates to the metropolitan police force, may be cited together as the Metropolitan Police Acts, 1829 to 1886.
2 Power of receiver with respect to construction of buildings and purchase of land.
2. The police receiver from time to time may provide, by building or otherwise, a central office and such police stations, offices, houses, and buildings as are required for the purposes of the metropolitan police force, and the execution of the enactments relating to such force, and may improve, enlarge, fit up, and provide proper access, yards, and other appurtenances for, any offices, stations, houses, and buildings provided either before or after the passing of this Act for the above purposes, or any of them, and may purchase and take on lease and hold for the said purposes any land and any rights or easements from over or upon that or any other land, or may exercise any of such powers.
3 Power to raise 200,000l on mortgage of metropolitan police fund.
(1)3.—(1.) For the purpose of any purchase under this Act, and of any works under this Act which the police receiver, with such approval as in this Act mentioned, determines to be of a permanent character, the police receiver may from time to time borrow, on the security of the metropolitan police fund, and of the property vested in the police receiver or any part or parts thereof, any sum or sums, so that the aggregate principal sums for the time being due under this section do not exceed in the whole two hundred thousand pounds.
(2) (2.) All sums so borrowed shall be paid into the Bank of England to the account of the police receiver, and shall be repaid with the interest thereon within a period not exceeding thirty, or in the case of a sum borrowed for the purchase of freehold land, sixty years from the date at which the same are borrowed.
(3) (3.) Such money may be borrowed in manner provided by the Local Loans Act, 1875 , and any Act amending the same, by the issue of any of the securities in the said Acts mentioned, and for the purposes of such borrowing a sinking fund may be created, and the provisions of the said Acts shall apply as if ‘Secretary of State’ were therein substituted for ‘Local Government Board,’ and as if the police receiver were a local authority and the metropolitan police fund a local rate as therein defined.
(4) (4.) The Metropolitan Board of Works may lend any money authorised by this Act to be borrowed by the police receiver.
4 Purchase of land.
(1)4.—(1.) For the purpose of the purchase of land by the police receiver, the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845 , and the Acts amending the same, (in this section referred to as the Lands Clauses Acts), shall be incorporated with this Act, except the provisions relating to access to the special Act, and, except section one hundred and twenty-seven of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, relating to the sale of superfluous land, and in construing the Lands Clauses Acts for the purpose of this section, the special Act shall be construed to mean this Act, and the promoters of the undertaking shall be construed to mean the police receiver, and land shall be construed to include any right over land.
(2) (2.) The police receiver, before putting in force any of the powers of the Lands Clauses Acts with respect to the purchase and taking of land otherwise than by agreement, shall—
(a .) publish, once at the least during three consecutive weeks in the months of September, October, and November, or any of them, in some one and the same newspaper circulating in the locality, an advertisement describing shortly the object for which the land is proposed to be taken, naming a place in the neighbourhood of the land proposed to be taken, where a plan of such land may be seen at all reasonable hours, and stating the quantity of such land, and shall further,
(b .) during the month next following, the month in which such advertisements are published, serve a notice in manner mentioned in this section on every owner or reputed owner, lessee, or reputed lessee, and occupier of such land, so far as such owners, lessees, and occupiers can be reasonably ascertained, defining in each case the land intended to be taken, and requiring an answer stating whether the person so served assents, dissents, or is neuter in respect of taking such land; and
(c .) where any person above-mentioned as required to be served is absent abroad or cannot be found, the notice may be served on his agent, or if no agent can be found, by leaving the same at the premises.
(d .) Service of a notice on a person whether principal or agent may be made—
(i.) by delivery of the same personally to such person; or
(ii.) by leaving the same at the usual or last known place of abode of such person, or by forwarding the same by post in a prepaid letter, addressed to the usual or last known place of abode of such person; and
(iii.) one notice addressed to the occupier or...
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