Special Constables Act 1914
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1914 c. 61 |
Special Constables Act, 1914
(4 & 5 Geo. 5.) CHAPTER 61.
An Act to enable His Majesty, by Order in Council, to make regulations with respect to Special Constables appointed during the present war.
[28th August 1914]
Be it enacted by the King'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 Power to make regulations with respect to special constables.
(1) His Majesty may, by Order in Council, make regulations with respect to the appointment and position of special constables appointed during the present war under the Special Constables Act, 1831 , or under section one hundred and ninety-six of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882 , and may, by those regulations, provide—
(a ) that the power to authorise the nomination and appointment of special constables under the Special Constables Act, 1831, may be exercised although a tumult, riot, or felony has not taken place or is not immediately apprehended; and
(b ) that any special constables to which the regulations apply shall, in the execution of their duty, act under such direction as may be specified in the regulations; and
(c ) for the application to special constables to which the regulations apply of any of the provisions of the Police Acts, 1839 to 1910 (including those relating to the grant of allowances or gratuities to constables injured, and to the dependents of constables killed, in the execution of their duty), subject to such modifications as may be specified in the regulations; and
(d ) for giving validity and effect to the appointment of special constables, or any other action taken with respect to special constables, since the commencement of the present war, but before the regulations are made; and
(e ) for such supplemental and ancillary matters as may be necessary or expedient for the purpose of giving full effect to the regulations.
(2) His Majesty may, by Order in Council, revoke, alter, or amend any Order in Council made under this section as occasion requires.
(3) In the application of this Act to Scotland the Burgh Police (Scotland) Act, 1892 , so far as relating to special constables, the corresponding provisions of any local Act, and the Special Constables (Scotland) Act, 1914 , shall be substituted for the Special Constables Act, 1831, and section...
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