{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/metropolitan-police-act-1839/section-52",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/metropolitan-police-act-1839/section-52.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/2-3/47",
  "legislation_title": "Metropolitan Police Act 1839",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/metropolitan-police-act-1839",
  "path": "section/52",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "52",
  "heading": "Regulations for preventing obstruction in the streets during public processions, &c.",
  "text": "It shall be lawful for the commissioners of police from time to time, and as occasion shall require, to make regulations for the route to be observed by all carts, carriages, horses, and persons, and for preventing obstruction of the streets and thoroughfares within the metropolitan police district, in all times of public processions, public rejoicings, or illuminations, and also to give directions to the constables for keeping order and for preventing any obstruction of the thoroughfares in the immediate neighbourhood of her Majesty’s palaces and the public offices, the High Court of Parliament, the courts of law and equity, the magistrates’ courts, the theatres, and other places of public resort, and in any case when the streets or thoroughfares may be thronged or may be liable to be obstructed.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 52 substituted (31.8.2000) by 1999 c. 22, s. 78, Sch. 11 paras. 1, 2 (with s. 107, Sch. 14 para. 7(2)); S.I. 2000/1920, art. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Reference to carriage to be construed as including reference to motor vehicle or trailer: Road Traffic Act 1972 (c. 20), s. 195"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Power to extend conferred by Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (c. 27, SIF 107:1), s. 96(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Reference to police court to be construed as reference to a magistrates' court for the inner London area: Administration of Justice Act 1964 (c. 42), Sch. 3 Pt. I para. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/2-3/47/section/52",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:42:26.485610+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."
}