Justices Quorum Act 1766

AN ACT to obviate Inconveniencies which may arise with respect to the Execution of several Acts of Parliament in such Cities, Boroughs, Towns Corporate, Franchises, and Liberties as have only One Justice of the Peace of the Quorum qualified to act within the same.

WHEREAS authority is given by divers Acts of Parliament to two or more justices of the peace, whereof one or more are to be of the quorum: And whereas many inconveniencies have arisen in such cities, boroughs, towns corporate, franchises, and liberties as have only one justice of the peace of the quorum qualified to act within the same: Be it enacted 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 from and after the passing of this present Act, all acts, orders, adjudications, warrants, indentures of apprenticeship, or other instruments which shall be made, done, or executed by virtue of any Act or Acts of Parliament, made or to be made, by two or more justices of the peace qualified to act within such cities, boroughs, towns corporate, franchises, and liberties, though neither of the said justices are of the quorum, shall be valid and effectual in law, to all intents and purposes, as if one of the said justices had been of the quorum, any law, statute, or usage to the contrary notwithstanding.