Promissory Oaths Act 1868

Part 3 U.K.

Saving Clause U.K.

14 Not to affect matters herein stated. U.K.

Nothing in this Act contained shall affect—

• 1. [F1 The M1 Clerical Subscription Act 1865, or] the M2 Parliamentary Oaths Act 1866, except in relation to the form of oath in manner herein-before mentioned:

• 2. The oath taken by privy councillors of the United Kingdom, . . . F2 , with the exception that the form of the oath of allegiance prescribed by this Act shall be substituted for the oath of allegiance, supremacy, and abjuration now required to be taken by privy councillors:

• 3. The oath of homage taken by archbishops and bishops in the presence of Her Majesty:

• 4. The oath of canonical obedience to the bishop, or the oath of due obedience to the archbishop taken by bishops on consecration, and which oaths are reserved by the M3 Clerical Subscription Act 1865:

• 5. Any oath taken by peers, baronets, or knights on their creation, with this exception, that where the oaths of allegiance, supremacy, or abjuration, or any two or one of such oaths, or any oath substituted for such oaths or any of them, are or is required to be taken by such peers, baronets, or knights, there shall be substituted for such oaths, or any two or one of them, the oath of allegiance prescribed by this Act:

• 6. Any oath required to be taken in the Army, the Marines, . . . F3 .

• 7. The oath taken by aliens on being naturalized, . . . F4

• 8 . . . F5

• 9. Any power of substituting a declaration for an oath vested in the Treasury by the M4 Statutory Declarations Act 1835.

• 10. Any oath required or authorized by Act of Parliament to be taken or made for the purpose of attesting any fact or verifying any account or document:

• 11 . . . F6

• 12. Any oath required to be taken by any juror, witness, or other person, in pursuance of any Act of Parliament or custom, as preliminary to or in the course of any civil, military, criminal, or other trial, inquest, or proceedings of a judicial nature, including any arbitration, or as preliminary to or in the course of any proceedings before a committee of either House of Parliament, or before any commissioner or other special tribunal appointed by the Crown.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words repealed (N.I.) by Statute Law Revision (Northern Ireland) Act 1980 (c. 59), s. 1, Sch. Pt. III

F2 Words repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1977 (c. 18), Sch. 1 Pt. XIV

F3 Words repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1966 (c. 5)

F4 Words repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1875 (c. 66)

F5 S. 14(8) repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1953 (2 & 3 Eliz. 2 c. 5)

F6 S. 14(11) repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1977 (c. 18), Sch. 1 Pt. XIV

Marginal Citations

M1 1865 c. 122.

M2 1866 c. 19.

M3 1865 c. 122.

M4 1835 c. 62.

15 Saving of powers of alteration hitherto exercised. U.K.

Where a declaration has been substituted for an oath under this Act, any person, guild, body corporate, or society which before the passing of this Act had power to alter such oath, or to substitute another oath in its place, may exercise a like power with regard to such declaration.

16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F7 U.K.

Textual Amendments

F7 S. 16 repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1875 (c. 66)