like the metropolitan police act 1861, it mainly dealt with the role of the receiver of the metropolitan police, granting him the power to buy or lease land, build new central offices, police stations and other buildings for the metropolitan police and to expand existing ones (section 2). if the receiver intended the buildings there to be permanent, he was also empowered to use the metropolitan police fund as security up to a total of £200,000, to be paid into the receiver's account in the bank of england and repaid within 30 (or 60 for the purchase of freehold land) years of taking out the mortgage (section 2.1-2).