
PART I
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The power of the Secretary of State under the Metropolitan Police Staff (Superannuation) Act, 1875, to make regulations respecting the grant to the officers to whom that Act applies of superannuation allowances, compensations, gratuities, or other allowances, shall he extended so as to include power to make regulations respecting the grant to officers to whom this Part of this Act applies, or to the dependants of such officers, of compassionate gratuities on the like principles and conditions as are for the time being in force with respect to persons employed in public departments in employments to which they are required to devote their whole time and for which the remuneration is paid entirely out of moneys provided by Parliament, but in capacities in respect of which superannuation allowances cannot be granted.
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The power of the Secretary of State under the Metropolitan Police Staff (Superannuation) Act, 1875, to make regulations respecting the grant to the officers to whom that Act applies of superannuation allowances, compensations, gratuities, or other allowances, shall include power to make regulations for the commutation, by the payment of a capital sum of money out of the Metropolitan Police Fund, of any sum payable annually by way of compensation allowance in respect of any officer to whom this Act applies who has retired or has been removed from his office in consequence of the abolition of his office or for the purpose of facilitating improvements in the organisation of the department to which he belonged, on the like principles and conditions as are for the time being in force with respect to persons to whom the Pensions Commutation Acts, 1871 to 1882, apply, and such regulations may apply any of the provisions of those Acts with such modifications as may be specified in the regulations.
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(1) This Part of this Act applies to officers to whom salaries have been paid out of the Metropolitan Police Fund in respect of their employment—
(a) under the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis or the Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District, otherwise than as constables; or
(b) as members of the staff of the Metropolitan police courts, otherwise than as metropolitan police magistrates.
(2) References in this Act to the Metropolitan Police Staff (Superannuation) Act, 1875, shall be construed as references to that Act as amended by the Metropolitan Police Staff Superannuation Act, 1885, and the Police Act, 1909, and, except where the context otherwise requires, by this Act.
(3) The Metropolitan Police Staff Superannuation Acts, 1875 and 1885, section four of the Police Act, 1909, and this Part of this Act may be cited together as the Metropolitan Police Staff (Superannuation) Acts, 1875 to 1931.
PART II
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In section ten of the Metropolitan Police Act, 1829, for the word " immediately " there shall be substituted the words " subject as hereinafter provided, " and for the words from " and the said receiver shall draw" to the end of the section (which relate to the drawing of money out of the account of the public moneys of the Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District and to the purposes for which and the manner in which such money may be so drawn) there shall be substituted the words following, that is to say: " and all moneys " standing to the credit of the said account shall be " available to meet such expenses as may be authorised " by or under any enactment or by the Secretary of " State to be paid out of the Metropolitan Police Fund, " and the said account shall be drawn upon by such " persons and in such manner as the Secretary of State " may direct :
" Provided that such moneys received by or on " behalf of the receiver as the Secretary of State may " direct shall, in lieu of being paid into the account " aforesaid, be paid into such other accounts at such " banks as may be approved by him, and payments " into and out of any such accounts shall be regulated " in such manner as the Secretary of State may direct."
PART III
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This Act may be cited as the Metropolitan Police (Staff Superannuation and Police Fund) Act, 1931, and the Metropolitan Police Acts, 1829 to 1912, and this Act may be cited together as the Metropolitan Police Acts, 1829 to 1931.