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Metropolitan Police Provisional Order The whole Act.
Confirmation Act 1910
(10 Edw.7 & 1 Geo.5 c.lxvii)
Metropolitan Police Provisional Order The whole Act.
Confirmation Act 1911
(1 & 2 Geo.5 c.cxxxvii)
Metropolitan Police Provisional Order The whole Act.
Confirmation Act 1912
(2 & 3 Geo.5 c.xxix)
Metropolitan Police Provisional Order The whole Act.
Confirmation Act 1920
(10 & 11 Geo.5 c.xliv)
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Metropolitan Police Provisional Confirmation Acts
1. This note proposes the repeal of a number of Acts that were passed in the
late 19 th and early 20 th centuries to facilitate the purchase of land to provide
offices, stations and buildings for the purposes of the metropolitan police force
and the metropolitan police courts.
2. Each Act was necessary to confirm a provisional order made by the
Secretary of State under the Metropolitan Police Act 1886 (“the 1886 Act”). The
1886 Act extended the powers of the receiver for the metropolitan police district
(“the Receiver”) to buy land for the construction of offices, stations and buildings
for the metropolitan police force. 21 Section 4 of the 1886 Act prescribed a
procedure whereby the compulsory purchase powers under the Land Clauses
Consolidation Act 1845 could be invoked by the Receiver to acquire land. 22
21 The powers given to the Receiver under the 1886 Act with respect to land and buildings required for the
purposes of the metropolitan police force were extended with respect to land and buildings required for the
purposes of the metropolitan police courts: Metropolitan Police Courts Act 1897, s.4. Some of the Acts
proposed for repeal in this note were made pursuant to both the 1886 Act and the 1897 Act – for example
the Metropolitan Police Provisional Order Confirmation Act 1898.
22 Section 5 of the 1886 Act imposed restrictions on the number of houses occupied by “persons belonging
to the labouring classes” that could be purchased by the Receiver when exercising his powers under an
order.
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