{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/metropolitan-police-act-1829/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/metropolitan-police-act-1829/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo4/10/44",
  "legislation_title": "Metropolitan Police Act 1829",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/metropolitan-police-act-1829",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Westminster, and parts of Middlesex, Surrey, and Kent, to be formed into one district, to be called “the metropolitan police district.” A police force for the whole district to be appointed.",
  "text": ". . . a sufficient number of fit and able men shall from time to time, by the directions of one of his Majesty’s principal secretaries of state, be appointed as a police force for the whole of such district, who . . . shall obey all such lawful commands as they may from time to time receive from any of the said justices for conducting themselves in the execution of their office.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by Police Act 1946 (c. 46), Sch. 5 Pt. II"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words repealed by Police Act 1964 (c. 48), Sch. 10 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Unreliable marginal note"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/1999/29",
      "affecting_title": "Greater London Authority Act 1999"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo4/10/44/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:54:36.787930+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}