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title: "Metropolitan Police Courts Act 1897"
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# Metropolitan Police Courts Act 1897

## Title and introductory text {#prelims}

Metropolitan Police Courts Act 1897
1897 c.26
An Act for transferring the Expenses of Police Courts to the Metropolitan Police Fund, and for making provision with respect to the Courts of the Stipendiary Magistrate of Chatham and Sheerness.
[6th August 1897]

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## 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#section-2}



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## 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#section-5}



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## 7 Provisions as to fees and fines. {#section-7}

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(3) Notwithstanding anything in this Act, or any repeal enacted by this Act, any fines which at the passing of this Act are payable by the receiver into the Exchequer, and which, by the Act imposing them, are directed to be paid to the Crown, or to the Exchequer, shall continue to be paid by the receiver into the Exchequer.

## 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . {#section-8}



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## 11 Short title. {#section-11}

This Act may be cited as the Metropolitan Police Courts Act 1897, and may be cited with the Metropolitan Police Acts 1829 to 1895.

## SCHEDULE {#schedule}

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