Section 1

1)—(8)

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There shall cease to have effect—

(a)

section 1 of the M1Metropolitan Police Act 1829 in so far as ir regulates the appointment or removal of the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis ; and

(b)

so much of section 2 of the M2Metropolitan Police Act 1856 as provides for the Assistant Commissioners of Police of the Metropolis to be justices of the peasce ;

and the Commissioner of Police shall be appointed in like manner as Assistant Commissioners are under the said section 2 to be appointed.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: S. 1(1)—(8) repealed by Justices of the Peace Act 1979 (c. 55, SIF 82), Sch. 3

Marginal citations

M1: 1829 c. 44
M2: 1856 c. 2.

Modifications

C1: “The said section 2” means Metropolitan Police Act 1856 (c. 2, SIF 95), s. 2
C2: The text of ss. 7(2), 14(1), 18(1) and Sch. 2 Pt. II and part of s. 1(9) is in the form in which it was originall enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and, except as specified does not reflect any amendments or repeals made prior to 1.2.1991.