Metropolitan Police Act 1886

If the Receiver intended the buildings there to be permanent, he was also empowered to use the Metropolitan Police Fund as security up to a total of £200,000, to be paid into the Receiver's account in the Bank of England and repaid within 30 (or 60 for the purchase of freehold land) years of taking out the mortgage (Section 2.1-2).

and serve notice to the land's owners or lessees or his or her agent (Section 3.2.b).

The owners or lessees were granted the right to appeal to the Secretary of State over the purchase (section 3.3) and the Secretary of State to hold a local inquiry to resolve issues (section 3.4).

The act also required the Receiver and the relevant local government board to re-house working class tenants or lodgers made homeless by the purchase of land for the Metropolitan Police (section 5).

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