Metropolitan Police Act 1829
[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.
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4Westminster, 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.
5 The justices, subject to the approbation of a secretary of state, may make regulations for the management of the police force.
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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.
11 Receiver’s accounts to be audited.
12 Salaries and wages of policemen to be regulated by the secretary of state. Rewards for activity, and superannuation allowances.
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SCHEDULE
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Metropolitan Police Act 1829

1829 c.44

An Act for improving the Police in and near the Metropolis.

C1C2C3Whereas 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:

Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
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Short title given by Short Titles Act 1896 (c. 14)

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References to the “said justices” to be construed as references to the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis: Administration of Justice Act 1973 (c. 15), Sch. 1 para. 10(2)