The Grand Juries Act 1856
WHEREAS it would expedite and improve the Administration of Criminal Justice if Persons attending to give Evidence before Grand Juries were sworn in the Presence of the Jurors who are to act upon such Testimony: 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: