Metropolitan Police Courts Act 1897

6 Provision as to Chatham and Sheerness courts

The salary of the clerk to the Chatham and Sheerness stipendiary magistrate shall be paid out of the police fund, and all fees received at any courts of that magistrate, and all fines, pecuniary penalties, and forfeitures imposed by that magistrate, shall, subject to the provisions of this Act, be carried to the police fund :

Provided that if the fees, fines, penalties, and forfeitures so paid in any financial year are insufficient to meet the salary of the said clerk for that year, the. deficiency shall be defrayed, as heretofore, out of money provided by Parliament, but in like manner as the charges and expenses incurred under the [23 & 24 Vict. c. 135.] Metropolitan Police Act, 1860, and if they are in excess of such salary the excess shall be paid into the Exchequer.