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Metropolitan Police (Receiver) Act 1861

24 & 25 Vict. c. 124 · Enacted 6 August 1861 · Extends to United Kingdom

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An Act amending the Law relating to the Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District; and for other Purposes.

[6th August 1861]C1C2

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Modifications

C1

Short title given by Short Titles Act 1896 (c. 14)

C2

Preamble omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1892 (c. 19)

Contents

  1. 1Receiver constituted a corporation sole.
  2. 2, 3, 4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Repealed
  3. 5Power of receiver to purchase &c.
  4. 6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Repealed
  5. 7. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Repealed
  6. 8. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Repealed
  7. 9This and previous Acts to be construed as one.
  8. 10. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Repealed

1Receiver constituted a corporation sole.F1

The person for the time being holding the office of receiver for the Metropolitan Police District shall be a corporation sole, by the name of “the Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District,” and by that name shall have perpetual succession, with a capacity by his official name to acquire and hold lands, to hold stock in the public funds, shares in any public company, securities for monies, and personal property of every description, to sue and be sued, to execute deeds, using an official seal, to make leases, to enter into engagements binding on himself and his successors in office, and to do all other acts necessary or expedient to be done in the execution of the duties of his office.

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5Power of receiver to purchase &c.F1C1

The receiver may, by the direction of one of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State, transfer, demise, enfranchise, mortgage, or otherwise dispose of property of any tenure vested in him in his official capacity, . . . F2.

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9This and previous Acts to be construed as one.

This Act, so far as is not inconsistent with the purposes thereof, shall be construed as one with the Metropolitan Police Act, 1829, and the other Acts relating to the Metropolitan Police Force.

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