{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/metropolitan-police-act-1886/section-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/metropolitan-police-act-1886/section-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/49-50/22",
  "legislation_title": "Metropolitan Police Act 1886",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/metropolitan-police-act-1886",
  "path": "section/6",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Approval of Secretary of State for purchases and loans.",
  "text": "Every purchase, sale, scheme, or lease by the police receiver under the Metropolitan Police Acts, 1829 to 1884, or this Act ... shall be subject to the approval of a Secretary of State ... provided that it shall not be necessary for any vendor, purchaser, lessor, lessee, or lender to ascertain that such approval has been given.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 6 repealed (3.7.2000 for specified purposes) by 1999 c. 29, ss. 325, 423, 425(2), Sch. 27 para. 5(c), Sch. 34 Pt. VII (with Sch. 12 para. 9(1)); S.I. 2000/1648, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words repealed by Metropolitan Magistrates' Courts Act 1959 (c. 45, SIF 82), s. 4(3), Sch."
    }
  ],
  "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      "type": "repealed",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/6",
    "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."
}