The Metropolitan Police Act 1860The citation of this act by this

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was authorised by the

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, section 1 and the first schedule. Due to the repeal of those provisions it is now authorised by section 19(2) of the

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. ( 23 & 24 Vict. c. 135) was one of the

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s, granted royal assent on 28 August 1860. It consisted of two chapters. The first allowed the

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to assign members of the Metropolitan Police to work in royal dockyards in England and Wales such as

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and for the Commissioner to issue additional "orders and regulations" to standard Metropolitan Police rules to cover these dockyard

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. The second outlined the powers of constables in such divisions, which covered the land, rivers and waters in the whole of the relevant dockyard and within a radius of fifteen miles around it, with all the powers he would usually exercise within the

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The act was extended to Scotland in 1914 by the ( 4 & 5 Geo. 5. c. 44). The Metropolitan Police were phased out of dockyards between 1922 and 1934, though the act itself was only repealed by Schedule 10 Part II of the

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, except as it was applied by section 3, chapter 11 of the

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