Section 57 Police expenses of counties falling partly within the metropolitan police district.F1

Any police expenses payable out of the county fund of any county falling partly within the metropolitan police district shall be chargeable only on so much of the county as does not fall within that district, without prejudice, however, to section 67 of the M1London Government Act 1963 (power of rating authority to aggregate like expenses chargeable on different parts of rating area.)

In this section “police expenses” means expenses for police purposes (including contributions to the police fund of a combined police authority) or expenses which are for any purpose treated as incurred for police purposes or are under any enactment payable out of the police fund.