Metropolitan Police Act 1864

The Metropolitan Police Act 1864 (27 & 28 Vict. c. 55) was one of a series of Metropolitan Police Acts. It was wholly repealed by the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989.

The Metropolitan Act 1864[1]

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	^An Act for the better Regulation of Street Music within the Metropolitan Police District
Territorial extent	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Dates
Royal assent	25 July 1864
Repealed	16 November 1989
Other legislation
Repealed by	Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989[2]
Status: Repealed

Provisions

The provisions of the Act include:

• Repealing Section 57 of the Metropolitan Police Act 1839 and replacing it with a section allowing street musicians to be fined no more than forty shillings or to be imprisoned for no more than three days.[3]

Sources

1. The citation of this Act by this short title was authorised by the Short Titles Act 1896, section 1 and the first schedule.  Due to the repeal of those provisions it is now authorised by section 19(2) of the Interpretation Act 1978.
2. "Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989 - Part IV Local Government". Legislation.gov.uk. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
3. A Collection of the Public General Statutes passed in the Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Years of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria: Being the Sixth Session of the Eighteenth Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode. 1864. p. 237.

• "Third reading of the act".