The Stipendiary Magistrates' Act 1869
WHEREAS by the thirteenth section of an Act passed in the twenty-first and twenty-second years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter seventy-three, power is given to stipendiary magistrates, with the approval of the Secretary of State for the Home Department, to appoint a deputy for a time not exceeding six weeks in any consecutive period of twelve calendar months: And whereas it is expedient that such power should be extended: Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by an...