Metropolitan Police Act 1864
| Act of Parliament | |
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| Long title | An Act for the better Regulation of Street Music within the Metropolitan Police District. |
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| Citation | 27 & 28 Vict. c. 55 |
| Territorial extent | United Kingdom |
| Dates | |
| Royal assent | 25 July 1864 |
| Commencement | 25 July 1864[b] |
| Repealed | 16 November 1989 |
| Other legislation | |
| Amends | Metropolitan Police Act 1839 |
| Amended by | |
| Repealed by | Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989 |
Status: Repealed | |
| Text of statute as originally enacted | |
The Metropolitan Police Act 1864[a] (27 & 28 Vict. c. 55) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The act was one of a series of Metropolitan Police Acts. It was wholly repealed by the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989.
Provisions
The provisions of the act include:
- Repealing Section 57 of the Metropolitan Police Act 1839 (2 & 3 Vict. c. 47) and replacing it with a section allowing street musicians to be fined no more than forty shillings or to be imprisoned for no more than three days.[1]
Subsequent developments
The whole act was repealed by section 1(1) of, and part IV of schedule 1 to, the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989, which came into force on 16 November 1989.[2]
Notes
- 1 2 The citation of this act by this short title was authorised by section 1 of, and the first schedule to, the Short Titles Act 1896. Due to the repeal of those provisions it is now authorised by section 19(2) of the Interpretation Act 1978.
- ↑ The Acts of Parliament (Commencement) Act 1793.
References
- ↑ A Collection of the Public General Statutes passed in the Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Years of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria: Being the Sixth Session of the Eighteenth Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode. 1864. p. 237.
- ↑ "Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989", legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives, 1989 c. 43
External links
- Text of the Metropolitan Police Act 1864 as originally enacted or made within the United Kingdom, from legislation.gov.uk.