Parks Regulation Act 1872

c. 15) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, covering policing and regulation of seventeen royal parks, consisting of fifteen in London and two in Scotland.

[4] Its "First Schedule" listed offences within the Royal Parks for which people could be arrested by the park keepers and fined a maximum of £5 (section 4), with the offence of giving a false address to the keeper set at the same rate by section 5 and that of assaulting a park keeper at £20 or a maximum of six (England) or three (Scotland) months' imprisonment with or without hard labour by sections 6 and 15.

[2] Any new rule under that schedule had to be placed before both Houses of Parliament and removed if they disapproved it within a month (section 9).

[2] Regulations "to be observed in pursuance of this Act" were to be publicly displayed in the parks (section 10).

[2] Section 7 gave park keepers all the "powers, privileges, ... immunities... duties and responsibilities" as police constables in the district in which their Park fell (mostly the Metropolitan Police District), and section 8 granted all the same "powers, privileges, and immunities" to police constables of the relevant district within the bounds of the Parks.