Parliament of the United Kingdom
The Parliament of the United Kingdom is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories. It meets at the Palace of Westminster, London. It alone possesses legislative suprema ...
.''The Public General Statutes of the United Kingdom 1893-4 (56 & 57 Victoria)'' (1894), pages 23-25 /ref> It clarified the
Police Act 1890
The Police Act 1890 ( 53 & 54 Vict. c. 45) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
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by stating that time spent by an officer acting as a fireman or extinguishing a fire was to be accounted as time spent "in the execution of his duty" and enabled watch committees to use police officers full- or part-time as firemen, with their pay, pensions and gratuities funded from the usual police, "fire police" or "fire brigade" sources. It also enabled police authorities to increase an ex-officer's injury pension in the first three years after it was first granted if a medical assessment proved the ex-officer's level of disability had increased from partial to total.