Metropolitan Police Act 1829

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. E+W+S+N.I.

. . . F1 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 . . . F2 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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Amendments (Textual)

F1 Words repealed by Police Act 1946 (c. 46), Sch. 5 Pt. II

F2 Words repealed by Police Act 1964 (c. 48), Sch. 10 Pt. I

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Unreliable marginal note