{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/metropolitan-police-act-1887/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/metropolitan-police-act-1887/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/50-51/45",
  "legislation_title": "Metropolitan Police Act 1887",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/metropolitan-police-act-1887",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act for further amending the Enactments relating to Offices, Stations, and Buildings for the Metropolitan Police Force.\n[16th September 1887]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Act repealed (3.7.2000 for specified purposes otherwiseprosp.) by 1999 c. 29, ss. 325, 423, 425(2), Sch. 27 para. 7, Sch. 34 Pt. VII (with Sch. 12 para. 9(1)); S.I. 2000/1648, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Preamble omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1908 (c. 49)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "The “police receiver” means the receiver for the Metropolitan Police District."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/50-51/45/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:36:36.264398+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."
}