(1)In this Act if not inconsistent with the context the following terms have the meanings hereinafter respectively assigned to them (that is to say):—
The expression “powers” includes rights jurisdiction capacities privileges and immunities;
The expression “duties” includes responsibilities and obligations;
The expression “liabilities” includes liability to any proceeding for enforcing any duty or for punishing the breach of any duty and includes all debts and liabilities to which any authority whose powers duties or liabilities are by this Act transferred to the Common Council are or would but for this Act be liable or subject to whether accrued due at the date of the transfer or subsequently accruing and includes any obligation to carry or apply any money to any sinking fund or to any particular purpose;
The expression “powers duties and liabilities” includes all powers duties and liabilities conferred or imposed by or arising under any local and personal Act; and
The expression “office” includes any place situation or employment and the expression “officer” shall be construed accordingly.
(2)The local Act passed in the second and third years of the reign of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria chapter 94 intituled “An Act for regulating the Police in the City of London” is in this Act referred to as “theCity of London Police Act 1839.”