Metropolitan Police Act 1887
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1887 c. 45 |
| Year | 1887 |
Metropolitan Police Act, 1887
(50 & 51 Vict.) CHAPTER 45.
An Act for further amending the Enactments relating to Offices, Stations, and Buildings for the Metropolitan Police Force.
[16th September 1887]
W HEREAS by the Metropolitan Police Act, 1886, the receiver for the Metropolitan Police District (in this Act referred to as the police receiver) was empowered to provide, by building or otherwise, a central office, and such police stations, offices, houses, and buildings as were required for the purposes of the Metropolitan Police Force, and the execution of the enactments relating to such force, and to 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 the Act, or any of them, and to purchase and hold land for the said purposes, or any of them, and (by section three) for the purpose of any purchase under the Act, and of any works under the Act of a permanent character, to borrow a sum or sums not exceeding in the aggregate two hundred thousand pounds:
And whereas the borrowing powers of the police receiver under the said Act are insufficient to provide for all the aforesaid purposes, and it is expedient to extend those borrowing powers, and otherwise to amend the enactments relating to the police receiver:
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, 1887, and this Act and the Metropolitan Police Acts, 1829 to 1886, may be cited together as the Metropolitan Police Acts, 1829 to 1887.
2 Extension of borrowing powers under 49 Vict. c. 22. s. 3.
(1)2.—(1.) For the purposes referred to in section three of the Metropolitan Police Act, 1886, the police receiver shall have power to borrow further sums not exceeding in the aggregate three hundred thousand pounds, and that section shall have effect as if five hundred thousand pounds were therein substituted for two hundred thousand pounds.
(2) (2.) The purposes referred to in that section shall include the purchase of furniture and fittings for the said central office, but all sums borrowed for the purchase of furniture or fittings shall be...
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