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Metropolitan Police Act 1887 1887 c.45 An Act for further amending the Enactments relating to Offices, Stations, and Buildings for the Metropolitan Police Force. [16th September 1887]
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Metropolitan Police Act 1887
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5 provisions
1 Short title.
This Act may be cited as the Metropolitan Police Act 1887, and this Act and the Metropolitan Police Acts 1829 to 1886, may be cited together as the Metropolitan Police Acts 1829 to 1887.
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The police receiver may from time to time, with the approval of one of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State, grant leases, for such terms as the Secretary of State may approve, of land for the time being held by the police receiver and appearing to the Secretary of State to be not immediately required for the purposes for which the police receiver is authorised to hold land.
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