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Promissory Oaths Act 1871
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2 Persons before whom oaths to be taken. U.K.
Whereas by the M1Promissory Oaths Act 1868, it is provided that the oaths of allegiance and judicial oath should be taken by each of certain officers therein mentioned, in manner in which the oaths required to be taken by such officer previously to the passing of that Act would have been taken; and it is desirable, with a view to the revision of the statute law, to define the manner in which such oaths are to be taken: each such officer shall take the said oaths before such persons as Her Majesty may from time to time appoint; or,
In England, before the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain or in the [F1High Court], in open court before one or more of the judges of such court, or in open court at the general or quarter sessions of the peace for the county, borough, or place in which the person taking the oaths acts as justice:
In Scotland, in the Court of Session in open court before one or more of the judges of that court, . . . . . . F2, or in open court before the court of the [F3sheriff principal of the sheriffdom] for which the person taking the oaths acts as justice:
In Ireland, before [F4the Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, or in the High Court], in open court before one or more of the judges of such court, or at the quarter sessions of the peace for the county in which the person taking the oaths acts as justice.
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F1Words substituted by virtue of Supreme Court of Judicature (Consolidation) Act 1925 (c. 49), s. 224(1)
F2Words repealed by District Courts (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 20), Sch. 2
F3Words substituted by virtue of Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1971 (c. 58), s. 4, Sch. 1, para. 1
F4Words substituted by virtue of S.R. & O. 1921/1802 (Rev. XVI, p. 954: 1921, p. 1332), art. 2(1)
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C1Reference to Ireland to be construed as exclusive of Republic of Ireland: S.R. & O. 1923/405 (Rev. X, p. 298: 1923, p. 400), art. 2
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