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Oaths of Justices of the Peace Act 1745

As Enacted Cited in Amendments 1 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1745 c. 13
Year1745
Anno decimo nono G E O R G I I II. Regis. An Act to enlarge the Time for Justices of the Peace to take and subscribe the Oath directed by an Act made in the last Session of Parliament, intituled,An Act to amend and render more effectual an Act passed in the fifth Year of his present Majesty's Reign, intituled , An Act for the further Qualification of Justices of the Peace.

(19 Geo. 2) C A P. XIII.

'WHEREAS by an Act passed in the last Session of Parliament, intituled,An Act to amend and render more effectual an Act passed in the fifth Year of his present Majesty's Reign, intituled , An Act for the further Qualificationof Justices of the Peace; it is, amongst other Things, enacted, That no Person (except such as are therein excepted) shall, from and after the twenty-fifth Day ofMarch one thousand seven hundred and forty-six, be capable of being a Justice of the Peace, or of acting as such, for any County, Riding or Division, within that Part of Great Britain called England , or the Principality of Wales , who shall not, before the said twenty-fifth Day of March , or before he takes upon himself to act as a Justice of the Peace, after the said twenty-fifth Day of March , at some General or Quarter Sessions for the County, Riding or Division, for which he does or shall intend to act, first take and subscribe the Oath in the said Act set forth, under the Forfeiture in the said Act mentioned: And whereas several Justices of the Peace may, by reason of various Accidents, neglect or omit to take and subscribe the said Oath before the twenty-fifth Day of March one thousand seven hundred and forty-six:' Now to prevent any Inconveniencies that may happen by reason of such Neglect or Omission, Be it enacted by the King's most...

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