# Metropolitan Police Courts Act 1897 60 & 61 Vict. c. 26 · enacted 6 August 1897 · revised to 1 April 2001 An Act for transferring the Expenses of Police Courts to the Metropolitan Police Fund, and for making provision with respect to the Courts of the Stipendiary Magistrate of Chatham and Sheerness. PDFs: Printed copy https://openlegislation.uk/metropolitan-police-courts-act-1897/pdf/ukpga_18970026_en.pdf ## Introductory text An Act for transferring the Expenses of Police Courts to the Metropolitan Police Fund, and for making provision with respect to the Courts of the Stipendiary Magistrate of Chatham and Sheerness. [6th August 1897] ## 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ## 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ## 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ## 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ## 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ## 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ## 7 Provisions as to fees and fines. (1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (3) Notwithstanding anything in this Act, or any repeal enacted by this Act, any fines which at the passing of this Act are payable by the receiver into the Exchequer, and which, by the Act imposing them, are directed to be paid to the Crown, or to the Exchequer, shall continue to be paid by the receiver into the Exchequer. ## 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ## 9, 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ## 11 Short title. This Act may be cited as the Metropolitan Police Courts Act 1897, and may be cited with the Metropolitan Police Acts 1829 to 1895. ## . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . --- Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/60-61/26 (the official version) Page: https://openlegislation.uk/metropolitan-police-courts-act-1897 Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.