Metropolitan Police Act 1856

1856 CHAPTER 2

An Act to amend the Acts relating to the Metropolitan Police.

[28th February 1856]

WHEREAS by an [10 G. 4. c. 44.] Act passed in the Tenth Year of King George the Fourth, Chapter Forty-four, "for improving the Police in and near the Metropolis," Provision was made for the Appointment of Two fit Persons as Justices of the Peace of the Counties of Middlesex, Surrey, Hertford, Essex, and Kent, and of all Liberties therein, to execute the Duties in the said Act mentioned : And whereas by an [2 & 3 Vict. c. 47.] Act of the Session holders in the Second and Third Years of Her Majesty; Chapter Forty-seven, further improving the Police in and near the Metropolis," it was provided, that it should be lawful for Her Majesty to appoint the Justices appointed and to be appointed under the said Act of the Tenth Year of King George the Fourth to be Justices of the Peace for the Counties of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire, and that, the said Justices should be styled GG The Commissioners of Police of the Metropolis :"

Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows: