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 .

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".

The preamble, and to "as follows", was repealed by section 1 of, and the Schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1892.

So much of this section as relates to any police court was repealed by section 5 of, and the Schedule to, the Metropolitan Police Court (Buildings) Act 1871, "without prejudice to anything done or suffered, or any right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".