{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/metropolitan-police-act-1886/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/metropolitan-police-act-1886/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/49-50/22",
  "legislation_title": "Metropolitan Police Act 1886",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/metropolitan-police-act-1886",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Purchase of land.",
  "text": "1)–(10) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(11) The provisions of this Act and of the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 with respect to the purchase of land by the police receiver shall with the necessary modifications extend to the purchase of land of which such receiver is lessee or occupier in like manner as if another person were for the time being lessee or occupier of such land, and where an order authorising the compulsory purchase under this Act of any such land has come into operation, the police receiver may give notice to and purchase the estate, right, or interest of some one or more only of the parties interested in the land, but in that case he shall, if any other of such parties, by notice in writing, so requires him, purchase the estate, right, or interest in the land of such party.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 4 repealed (3.7.2000 for specified purposes) by 1999 c. 29, ss. 325, 423, 425(2), Sch. 27 para. 5(b), Sch. 34 Pt. VII (with Sch. 12 para. 9(1)); S.I. 2000/1648, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 4(1)–(10) repealed by Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) Act 1946 (c. 49, SIF 28:1), Sch. 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words inserted by Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) Act 1946 (c. 49), Sch. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words substituted by Acquisition of Land Act 1981 (c. 67, SIF 28:1), s. 34, Sch. 4 para. 1 Table"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words substituted by Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) Act 1946 (c. 46), Sch. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1981 c. 67"
    }
  ],
  "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      "type": "repealed",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/Vict/49-50/22/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:37:36.153431+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."
}