{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/metropolitan-police-receiver-act-1895/section-1",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/58-59/12",
  "legislation_title": "Metropolitan Police (Receiver) Act 1895",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/metropolitan-police-receiver-act-1895",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Power to provide for temporary absence of receiver.",
  "text": "If and whilst the receiver for the metropolitan police district is temporarily unable to act whether by reason of absence or otherwise a person appointed by warrant under the hand of the Secretary of State may temporarily act as and shall be deemed for all purposes to be such receiver.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by Police Act 1964 (c. 48), Sch. 9"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/58-59/12/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:29:54.877550+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."
}