[F12 Power of receiver with respect to construction of buildings and purchase of land.U.K.
The police receiver from time to time may provide, by building or otherwise, a central office and such police stations, offices, houses, and buildings as are required for the purposes of the metropolitan police force, and the execution of the enactments relating to such force, and may improve, enlarge, fit up, and provide proper access, yards, and other appurtenances for, any offices, stations, houses, and buildings provided either before or after the passing of this Act for the above purposes, or any of them, and may [F2purchase by agreement, or, if so authorised by the [F3Secretary of State], compulsorily, or] take on lease and hold for the said purpose any land and any rights or easements from over or upon that or any other land, or may exercise any of such powers.]
Textual Amendments
F1S. 2 repealed (3.7.2000 for specified purposes otherwiseprosp.) by 1999 c. 29, ss. 325, 423, 425(2), Sch. 27 para. 5(a), Sch. 34 Pt. VII (with Sch. 12 para. 9(1)); S.I. 2000/1648, art. 2, Sch.
F2Words substituted by Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) Act 1946 (c. 46), Sch. 4
F3Words substituted by Police Act 1964 (c. 48), Sch. 9