Metropolitan Police Act 1912

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BE it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Alteration of limit on sum to be raised for police expenses.
10 Geo. 4. c. 44.
31 & 32 Vict. c. 67. 1. The maximum rate in the pound for the purposes of the proviso to section twenty-three of the Metropolitan Police Act, 1829, as amended by section two of the Police Rate Act, 1868, (by which enactments a limit is imposed on the annual sum to be provided for the purposes of the metropolitan police), shall be elevenpence instead of ninepence; and those sections shall, ​subject to the provisions of any subsequent enactment, have effect accordingly:

Provided that—

(a) in calculating for the purposes of paragraph (k) of subsection (2) of section twenty-four of the 51 & 52 Vict. c. 41.Local Government Act, 1888, (which regulates the amount to be paid by county councils to the receiver for the metropolitan police district and charged to the Exchequer Contribution Accounts) the amount actually raised by rates from the parishes in any county, only such part thereof shall be reckoned as does not exceed the maximum amount which could have been so raised if this Act had not been passed; and

(b) before approving the issue of any warrants under section twenty-three of the Metropolitan Police Act, 1829, by the effect of which the annual sum to be provided for the purposes of the Metropolitan Police to which the said limit applies will be in any year for the first time increased above the rate of tenpence in the pound, the Secretary of State shall lay before Parliament a minute stating the reasons for such increase; and, if within the next twenty days on which either House has sat after any such minute has been laid before it, an address is presented to His Majesty by either House praying that the said increase be not made, no further proceedings shall be taken in virtue of the said minute without prejudice to the presentation to Parliament of any new minute.

Short title and construction. 2. This Act may be cited as the Metropolitan Police Act, 1912, and shall be construed with the Metropolitan Police Acts, 1829 to 1909; and those Acts and this Act may be cited together as the Metropolitan Police Acts, 1829 to 1912.