The Short Title of this Act is “The Justices of the Peace Act 1882 Amendment Act, 1886.”

The Clerk of every Resident Magistrate’s Court situated in a borough or town district shall keep, and correct from time to time as occasion may require, an alphabetical list of Justices residing within a radius of three miles from the Courthouse where a Resident Magistrate’s Court is held.

Where two or more such Courthouses are situated within three miles of each other, the name of every such Justice shall be placed on the list for attendance at the Courthouse nearest to his place of residence, and on no other list.

When the attendance of a Justice or of Justices is required at any such Court, the Clerk of such Court shall summon in rotation, from the aforesaid list, as many Justices as he may think necessary for the occasion to attend, giving him or them as long notice as possible.

Any Justice may attend as a substitute for any other Justice who shall be summoned as aforesaid, in which case the Justice so summoned shall be considered to have himself attended in obedience to the summons.

All members of the Executive Council of the Colony, members of the General Assembly, barristers and solicitors in the actual practice of their profession, legally-qualified medical practitioners in actual practice, Resident Magistrates, Civil Servants, and Inspectors of Police, shall be exempt from attendance.

The Governor may grant leave of absence for such period as he may think fit to any Justice, or exempt any Justice from attendance at the Court either permanently or otherwise.

No Justice to whom leave shall be granted or who shall be exempt as aforesaid shall, during the period of such leave or exemption, be summoned to attend at any Court to which he might be summoned under this Act.

If any Justice shall fail to attend personally or by substitute on two successive occasions when summoned to attend as aforesaid, the Clerk of the Court shall notify the same to the Minister of Justice; and the said Justice shall, unless he shall, within one month from the date of the second absence, satisfy the Governor that such second absence resulted from some reasonable cause, cease to be a Justice of the Peace as from such day as shall be fixed for that purpose by the Minister of Justice, and notified in the Gazette. Every Justice of the Peace whose office shall become vacated as aforesaid shall be disqualified from being reappointed for the space of one year from the date on which notification shall be gazetted that he has ceased, by virtue of this Act, to be a Justice of the Peace.

Sections twenty and twenty-one of “The Justices of the Peace Act 1882 Amendment Act, 1885,” are hereby repealed.