Justice of the Peace in Wales Act 1693

Recital that 34 & 35 H. VIII. c. 26. § 55. has been found to be inconvenient.; By Commission under the Great Seal,; the King may nominate any Number of Justices in Wales.

Whereas in a Statute made in the thirty fourth and thirty fifth yeares of the Reigne of King Henry the Eighth entituled An Act for certaine Ordinances in the Kings Majesties Dominions and principality of Wales there is a Clause or Article contained in these words that is to say Item that there shall not exceed the number of Eight Justices of the Peace in any of the said Shires over and besides the President Council and Justices aforesaid and the Kings Attorney and Sollicitor Which President Council Justices and the Kings Attorney and Sollicitor shall be put in every Co[m]mission of Peace in every of the said Twelve Shires. And whereas the Law contained in this Clause or Article is by experience found to be inconvenient be it therefore enacted by the King and Queens most excellent Majestie by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in Parliament assembled and by authority of the same That the said Clause or Article be from henceforth absolutely repealed and vacated to all intents and purposes And that it shall and may be lawfull to and for the King and Queens most excellent Majesties their heires and Successors by Commission under the Greate Seale of England to constitute nominate and appoint from time to time any such number of persons to bee Justices of Peace in any of the said Counties of Wales as they shall thinke fitting and convenient according to such wayes and methods as are co[m]monly used for the constituteing nominateing and appointing of Justices of the Peace in and for any County of England And that the persons so constituted nominated and appointed shall have power and authority to act and [X1 to] doe any manner of thing pertaining to the Office of a Justice of Peace in as large and ample manner as any Justice or Justices of the Peace within the Dominion of Wales might or ought to have done before the makeing of this Act Any Law Statute Usage or Ordinance to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.

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