Police Act 1893 Explained

Short Title:Police Act 1893
Type:Act
Parliament:Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long Title:An Act to amend the Police Acts.
Statute Book Chapter:56 & 57 Vict. c. 10
Territorial Extent:United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Royal Assent:9 June 1893

The Police Act 1893 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 10) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.[1] It clarified the Police Act 1890 by stating that time spent by an officer acting as a fireman or extinguishing a fire was to be accounted as time spent "in the execution of his duty" and enabled watch committees to use police officers full- or part-time as firemen, with their pay, pensions and gratuities funded from the usual police, "fire police" or "fire brigade" sources.[1] It also enabled police authorities to increase an ex-officer's injury pension in the first three years after it was first granted if a medical assessment proved the ex-officer's level of disability had increased from partial to total.[1]

Notes and References

  1. https://archive.org/details/lrpgsv3018934 The Public General Statutes of the United Kingdom 1893-4 (56 & 57 Victoria) (1894), pages 23-25