Metropolitan Police Act 1864 Explained

Short Title:	Metropolitan Police Act 1864^[1]
Type:	Act
Parliament:	Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long Title:	An Act for the better Regulation of Street Music within the Metropolitan Police District.
Year:	1864
Citation:	27 & 28 Vict. c. 55
Territorial Extent:	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Royal Assent:	25 July 1864
Repeal Date:	16 November 1989
Amends:	Metropolitan Police Act 1839
Repealing Legislation:	Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989^[2]
Status:	repealed

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 It was wholly repealed by the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989.

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

• Web site: Third reading of the act.

Notes and References

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. Web site: Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989 - Part IV Local Government . . 20 February 2020.
3. Book: 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 . 1864 . George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode. 237.