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Middlesex Grand Juries Act 1872

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Middlesex Grand Juries Act, 1872

(35 & 36 Vict.) CHAPTER 52.

An Act to regulate the summoning of Grand Juries in Middlesex.

[6th August 1872]

Whereas inconvenience has been found to arise by reason of the unnecessary summoning of grand juries in the county of Middlesex:

Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

S-1 Grand jury in Middlesex need not be summoned unless notice has been given of business to be brought before them.

1 Grand jury in Middlesex need not be summoned unless notice has been given of business to be brought before them.

1. From and after the passing of this Act it shall not be necessary to summon a grand jury of Middlesex to come before the Queen at Westminster in any term unless the master of the Crown Office has before the fourth day of that term received notice of some business intended to be brought before them, and it shall be the duty of the said master to give notice to the sheriff accordingly.

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