Justices Oaths Act 1766

AN ACT for obviating Doubts which have arisen with respect to so much of an Act made in the First Year of the Reign of His Present Majesty, intituled (An Act to amend an Act passed in the Eighteenth Year of the Reign of King George the Second, concerning the Qualifications of Justices of the Peace, and for other Purposes therein mentioned), as directs the taking of certain Oaths by Justices of the Peace on the issuing of any new Commission of the Peace.

WHEREAS doubts have arisen with respect to the construction of so much of an Act made in the first year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled (An Act to amend an Act passed in the eighteenth year of the reign of King George the Second, concerning the qualification of justices of the peace, and for other purposes therein mentioned), as relates to the taking of certain oaths by justices of the peace on the issuing of new commissions of the peace: Be it therefore enacted and declared by the King'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, that all persons who have been or shall be appointed justices of the peace by any commission or commissions granted or to be granted by his present Majesty, and have taken and subscribed or shall take and subscribe the oaths mentioned in the said Act made in the first year of his present Majesty's reign, and all persons who shall be appointed justices of the peace by any commission or commissions which shall be granted after his Majesty's demise by any of his successors, Kings or Queens of this realm, and shall have, after the issuing of the first commission, whereby such persons shall be appointed justices of the peace in the reign of any such King or Queen, taken and subscribed the said oaths, shall not be obliged, during the reign of his present Majesty or during any future reign in which such oaths shall have been so taken and subscribed as aforesaid, to take and subscribe the same oaths for or by reason of such persons being again appointed justices of the peace by any subsequent commission or commissions which shall be granted during any such reign, and shall not incur any penalty or forfeiture for the not taking or subscribing the said oaths.