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Metropolitan Police Courts Act 1840

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Metropolitan Police Courts Act 1840

1840 CHAPTER 84

An Act for better defining the Powers of Justices within the Metropolitan Police District.

[7th August 1840]

WHEREAS by an [2 & 3 Vict. c. 47.] Act passed in the last Session of Parliament, intituled An Act for farther improving the Police in and near the Metropolis, it is among other things enacted, that in the Construction of that Act the Word " Magistrate" shall be taken to include every Justice of the Peace acting in and for any Part of the Metropolitan Police District for which no Police Court shall be established, and that if any Offence against that Act shall have been committed, or the Offender apprehended in any Part of the Metropolitan Police District for which no Police Court shall be established as aforesaid, the Matter of such Complaint may be also heard and determined by any Two or more Justices acting in and for the County in which the Offence was committed or the Offender apprehended; and it is expedient that the Meaning of these Enactments be more clearly expressed, and that further Provision be made for defining the Divisions for which Police Courts are established within the Metropolitan Police District:

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,

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