# Administration of Justice Act 1973, Section 1


1)—(8) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(9) There shall cease to have effect—
(a) section 1 of the Metropolitan 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 Metropolitan 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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1973/15/section/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/administration-of-justice-act-1973/section-1
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