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Pensions (Increase) Acts apply generally.)
(a) Police (i) Pride of place must go to the Metropolitan Police, since in 1829 'an Act for
improving the police in and near the Metropolis ' provided for discretionary allowances to
such policemen ' as shall be disabled by bodily injury received, or shall be worn out by
length of service'. This and other local-Act schemes persisted until superseded by the
Police Act, 1890.
During this period, the position was governed generally by a series of Police Acts from
1839 to 1865, which provided for pensions and gratuities on grounds of age or incapacity.
Benefits, at the discretion of the Justices but subject to prescribed maximum limitations,
were paid out of a police pensions fund ; to this were carried contributions (not exceeding
2½ % of remuneration), stoppages on account of sickness, fines on policemen for
misconduct and on the public for drunkenness and assaults on the police, and the
proceeds of sales of old police clothing. If this did not produce solvency, the fund was
secured on the local rates.
