4 Westminster, 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.
. . . a sufficient number of fit and able men shall from time to time, by the directions of one of his Majesty’s principal secretaries of state, be appointed as a police force for the whole of such district, who . . . shall obey all such lawful commands as they may from time to time receive from any of the said justices for conducting themselves in the execution of their office.
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Words repealed by Police Act 1946 (c. 46), Sch. 5 Pt. II
Words repealed by Police Act 1964 (c. 48), Sch. 10 Pt. I