# Clerical Subscription Act 1865, Section 5: Subscription and oath on institution to benefice, or licence to perpetual curacy, &c.


Every person about to be instituted or collated to any benefice, or to be licensed to any perpetual curacy, lectureship, or preachership, shall, before institution or collation is made or licence granted, . . . take the said oath of allegiance and supremacy, in the presence of the archbishop or bishop by whom he is to be instituted, collated, or licensed, or the commissary of such archbishop or bishop.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/28-29/122/section/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/clerical-subscription-act-1865/section-5
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