# Metropolitan Magistrates’ Courts Act 1959, Introduction: Introductory text


An Act to increase the maximum number of the metropolitan stipendiary magistrates; to authorise the appointment of acting stipendiary magistrates for the metropolitan stipendiary court area; to enable the Receiver to provide premises required for the probation system within the said area; and to make further provision with respect to the power of the Receiver to borrow money.
[9th July 1959]

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/7-8/45/introduction (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/metropolitan-magistrates-courts-act-1959/introduction
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