Metropolitan Police Act 1887
1887 c.45
An Act for further amending the Enactments relating to Offices, Stations, and Buildings for the Metropolitan Police Force.
[16th September 1887]
Act repealed (3.7.2000 for specified purposes otherwiseprosp.) by 1999 c. 29, ss. 325, 423, 425(2), Sch. 27 para. 7, Sch. 34 Pt. VII (with Sch. 12 para. 9(1)); S.I. 2000/1648, art. 2, Sch.
Preamble omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1908 (c. 49)
The “police receiver” means the receiver for the Metropolitan Police District.

1 Short title.
This Act may be cited as the Metropolitan Police Act 1887, and this Act and the Metropolitan Police Acts 1829 to 1886, may be cited together as the Metropolitan Police Acts 1829 to 1887.

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S. 2 repealed (with saving as to money borrowed thereunder) by Metropolitan Magistrates' Courts Act 1959 (c. 45, SIF 82), s. 4(3), Sch.

3 Power to lease land not immediately required.
The police receiver may from time to time, with the approval of one of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State, grant leases, for such terms as the Secretary of State may approve, of land for the time being held by the police receiver and appearing to the Secretary of State to be not immediately required for the purposes for which the police receiver is authorised to hold land.

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S. 4 repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1986 (c. 12), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. I