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PROMISSORY OATHS ACT 1871

PROMISSORY OATHS ACT 1871 - LONG TITLE

An Act to repeal divers enactments relating to Oaths and
Declarations which are not in force; and for other purposes
connected therewith.
[13th July 1871]
Preamble, which recites 1866 c.22 (Declaration before taking office)
and Promissory Oaths Act 1868 (c.72) rep. by SLR 1893 (No.2)

PROMISSORY OATHS ACT 1871 - SECT 1
Provision where taking oath is condition precedent under repealed
Act.

1. ....

Para.(1) rep. by SLR 1883

(2)Where by the recited Acts or this Act any person is prevented
or relieved from taking any oath or making or subscribing any
declaration, the taking, making, or subscribing of which forms a
condition precedent or subsequent to the attainment by such person
of any office, privilege, exemption, or other benefit, or the due
performance of any act, such person shall nevertheless, on complying
with the other conditions, if any, attached to the attainment of
such office, privilege, exemption, or other benefit or the due
performance of such act, be entitled thereto, and be deemed duly to
have performed such act, in the same manner as if the condition
relating to such oath or declaration, and any directions as to the
certificate or registration of the taking of such oath, or making
or subscribing such declaration, or otherwise, had been fulfilled and
performed.

PROMISSORY OATHS ACT 1871 - SECT 2
Persons before whom oaths to be taken.

2. Whereas by the Promissory 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 Ireland before the [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.

PROMISSORY OATHS ACT 1871 - SECT 3
Short title.

3. This Act may be cited as "The Promissory Oaths Act, 1871."

Schedules rep. by SLR 1883