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An Act for enabling the House of Commons and any Committee thereof to administer Oaths to Witnesses.
[16th August 1871]X1
Editorial Information
X1This Act is not necessarily in the form in which it has effect in Northern Ireland.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Preamble omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision (No. 2) Act 1893 (c. 54)
Commencement Information
I1Act wholly in force at Royal Assent.
The House of Commons may administer an oath to the witnesses examined at the bar of the said House.
Any committee of the House of Commons may administer an oath to the witnesses examined before such committee.
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Any oath . . . F2 under this Act may be administered by the Speaker of the House of Commons, or by such person or persons as may from time to time be appointed for that purpose either by him or by any Standing Order or other Order of the said House.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 1 repealed (E.W.) by 1911 c. 6, Sch. and repealed (S.)(N.I.) (5.11.1993) by 1993 c. 50, s. 1(1), Sch. 1, Pt. XI Group2.
F2Words repealed by Administration of Justice Act 1977 (c. 38), Sch. 5 Pt. III
Textual Amendments
F3S. 2 repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1883 (c. 39)
Nothing in this Act contained shall be held to confer any additional or further power or privilege on the Commons House of Parliament with reference to impeachment or other criminal jurisdiction or otherwise howsoever than is herein expressly enacted.
This Act may be cited as “The Parliamentary Witnesses Oaths Act 1871”.