# Metropolitan Police Act 1829, Section 4: 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.

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

. . . 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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo4/10/44/section/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/metropolitan-police-act-1829/section-4
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