Great Seal Act 1688

1688 CHAPTER 21 1 Will and Mar

An Act for enabling Lords Commissioners for the Great Seale to execute the Office of Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper.

X1 Jurisdiction of Commissioners of Great Seal doubted.

Whereas their most Excellent-Majestyes King William and Queene Mary have thought fitt that the Office of the Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper of the Great Seale of England should be executed by Commissioners appointed for the same under the Great Seale of England And whereas severall Authorities Jurisdictions and Powers are by severall Acts of Parliament and otherwise vested setled and placed in the Lord Chancellor of England or Lord Keeper of the Great Seale of England for the time being Now for the preventing of all Doubts and Questions that may arise whether all or any of those Authorities Jurisdictions and Powers may be exercised by such Commissioners.

Editorial Information

X1 Abbreviations or contractions in the original form of this Act have been expanded into modern lettering in the text set out above and below.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Short title given by Short Titles Act 1896 (c. 14)