Justice of the Peace in Wales Act 1693
1693 CHAPTER 4 5 Will and Mar
An Act to repeal a Clause in the Statute made in the [34th and 35th] years of King Henry the Eighth by which Justices of Peace in Wales are limitted to Eight in each County. [Chapter IV. Rot. Parl. pt. 2. nu. 3.]


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henceforth absolutely repealed and vacated to all intents and purposes And that it shall and may be lawfull to and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 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.