Metropolitan Police (Receiver) Act 1861

The Metropolitan Police (Receiver) Act 1861 or the Metropolitan Police Receiver's Act 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 124), sometimes called the Metropolitan Police District Receiver Act, was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. This act has, in addition to its other short titles, been given the short title the Metropolitan Police Act 1861, but that short title has also been given to the act 24 & 25 Vict. c. 51. The Metropolitan Police (Receiver) Act 1861 is one of the Metropolitan Police Acts 1829 to 1895.

It dealt with the position of Receiver of the Metropolitan Police, repealing parts of Section 25 of the Metropolitan Police Act 1829 (Section 7) and making the office a corporation sole (Section 1). All property vested in previous holders of the role were vested in the current Receiver (Section 2). The Act continued payments into the official Receiver's account at the Bank of England by the Overseers and others (Section 8), though it also removed the Receiver's name from that account (Section 4) and for the Overseers to continue paying into. The Act also removed his personal liability for any debts he incurred in his official capacity (Section 3) and empowered him to dispose of, buy and lease property in the pursuance of his office (Section 5) and to set up allowances for widows and children of men killed in the line of duty (Section 6).

Later acts
Due to the increasing complexity of his role, a second act of similar title in 1867 increased the Receiver's maximum annual salary to £1200, moved the end date for his annual accounts from 31 December to 31 March and stipulated that they be presented to Parliament within thirty days of that date if Parliament was sitting or within thirty days of the start of the next sitting if it was not. A third in 1895 authorised the Home Secretary to appoint a temporary replacement if the Receiver was "temporarily absent from his duties".

Repeals
The preamble, and to "as follows", was repealed by section 1 of, and the Schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1892.

Section 1
As to this section, see Metropolitan Police District Receiver v Tatum.

Sections 2 and 3
These sections were repealed by section 1(1) of, and Group 3 of Part I of the Schedule to, the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1986.

Section 4
This section was repealed by section 1(1) of, and Group 3 of Part I of the Schedule to, the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1986.

The words "after the passing of this Act" and "the Governor and Company of" were repealed by section 1 of, and the Schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1892.

Section 5
So much of this section as relates to any police court was repealed by section 5 of, and the Schedule to, the Metropolitan Police Court (Buildings) Act 1871, "without prejudice to anything done or suffered, or any right acquired or accrued before the passing of this Act". The words from "and may purchase" onwards were repealed by section 1(1) of, and Group 3 of Part I of the Schedule to, the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1986.

Section 6
This section was repealed by section 36 of, and the Fourth Schedule to the Police Act 1890, subject to the proviso in section 36.

Section 7
This section was repealed by section 147(1) of, and Part IV of the Second Schedule to, the Local Government Act 1948, subject to the provisions of section 147.

This section to "enacted that", and the word "that" before "the certificate", were repealed by section 1 of, and the Schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1892.

Section 8
This section was repealed by section 1(1) of, and Group 3 of Part I of the Schedule to, the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1986.

Section 10
This section was repealed by section 1 of, and the Schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1892.