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Commissioners of the Admiralty may administer oaths and act as justices.
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5. It shall be lawful for the commissioners for executing the office of lord high admiral aforesaid for the time being, or any one or more of them, and they and each of them are and is hereby empowered, to administer an oath or oaths in any cases touching or concerning his Majesty’s naval monies, stores, victuals, or provisions, or the accounts thereof, or in any other matter relating to his Majesty’s naval service, and also from time to time, in all places whatever, to execute the office and authority of a justice of the peace in as full and ample a manner as any commissioners of the navy or victualling are by any Act of Parliament now in force, or any justice under any commission is authorized to execute the same; and all keepers of gaols, and all constables and other peace officers, are hereby respectively required from time to time diligently to execute and obey all such warrants as shall be lawfully made, directed, or given to them or any of them by any one or more of the said commissioners for executing the office of lord high admiral aforesaid; and all the laws made or to be made for the ease, safety, and protection of justices of the peace in the execution of their office shall extend to the said last-mentioned commissioners, and to all constables and other peace officers and persons acting under the warrant or authority of any such commissioners, as fully and effectually to all intents and purposes as if they were herein enacted.
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