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Metropolitan Police Act 1857
Act of Parliament
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long titleAn Act for raising a Sum of Money for building and improving Stations of the Metropolitan Police, and to amend the Acts concerning the Metropolitan Police.[1]
Citation20 & 21 Vict. c. 64
Dates
Royal assent25 August 1857
Other legislation
Repealed byPolice Rate Act 1868 (Section 10 only)
Status: Repealed

The Metropolitan Police Act 1857 (20 & 21 Vict. c. 64) was one of the Metropolitan Police Acts, granted royal assent on 25 August 1857.[1] It enabled the Metropolitan Police's Receiver to borrow on the Police Rates to raise a sum of £60,000 to spend on purpose-built police stations to replace the lock-ups it had inherited from the parish constable system.[1] It also authorised him to top up the Police Superannuation Fund (an early form of police pension fund) from other Met funds if necessary.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "A collection of the public general statutes passed in the twentieth and twenty-first years of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, being the firsst session of the seventeenth parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, 1857, pages 237-242". 26 December 2023.
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