Parks Regulation Act 1872

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Parks Regulation Act 1872 [1]
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Long title An Act for the regulation of the Royal Parks and Gardens.
Citation 35 & 36 Vict. c. 15
Dates
Royal assent 27 June 1872 [2]
Commencement 27 July 1872 [2]
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Amended byParks Regulation (Amendment) Act 1974
Text of statute as originally enacted
Parks Regulation (Amendment) Act 1974
Act of Parliament
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Long title An Act to amend further the Parks Regulation Act 1872.
Citation 1974 c. 29
Dates
Royal assent 17 July 1974
Other legislation
AmendsParks Regulation Act 1872

The Parks Regulation Act 1872 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. [2] It now has no outstanding effects. [3]

Contents

Its Section 2, 4 and 9 and Schedule 1 were all repealed by the Parks Regulation (Amendment) Act 1926. [2] It was modified by the Parks Regulation (Amendment) Act 1974 (c. 29), requiring park keepers to be attested before acting as constables and renaming most of them collectively as the Royal Parks Constabulary, though the Kew Constabulary remained independent. [2] Sections 161-162 of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 abolished the Royal Parks Constabulary, placed the London parks under Section 2 of the 1926 Act and effectively removed any powers the Kew Constabulary had in other Royal Parks. [4]

Schedules and Sections

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] The Act was not to affect, prejudice or derogate rights of way (Section 11), any previous Acts (Section 12), any Crown rights (Section 13) or the Metropolitan Streets Act 1867 (Section 14). [2]

Drawing on the common law concept of the hue and cry, Section 5 granted a park keeper and "any persons whom he may call to his assistance" the right to arrest people for the offences in Schedule 1 and Sections 5, 6 and 15. [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. [2]

Parks listed in "Second Schedule"

London

Scotland

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References

  1. This short title was conferred on this Act by section 1 of this Act.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 The Public general statutes: passed in the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth years of the reign of her Majesty Queen Victoria. 1872 , p. 139-143, at Google Books
  3. "Parks Regulation Act 1872 - Table of Contents - Latest Available (revised)". Legislation.gov.uk.
  4. "Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 - Section 162". Legislation.gov.uk.