{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commissioners-clauses-act-1847/section-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commissioners-clauses-act-1847/section-12.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/10-11/16",
  "legislation_title": "Commissioners Clauses Act 1847",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commissioners-clauses-act-1847",
  "path": "section/12",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Declaration to be made by commissioners before acting.",
  "text": "No person shall be capable of acting as a commissioner, except in administering the declaration herein-after mentioned, until he shall have made and signed, before one of the commissioners, a declaration to the effect following:\n“I, A.B. do solemnly declare, that I will faithfully and impartially, according to the best of my skill and judgment, execute all the powers and authorities reposed in me as a commissioner, by virtue of the [here name the special Act], and also that I [here set forth a statement of the possession of the qualification required by the special Act, in the terms thereof].”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 12 incorporated (E.W.S.) (1.1.2000) by S.S.I. 1999/200, art. 3S. 12 incorporated (E.W.S) (4.3.2002) by S.I. 2002/306, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 12 incorporated (E.W.S.) (21.5.2010) by The Newlyn Pier and Harbour Revision (Constitution) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/1462), arts. 1(1), 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/10-11/16/section/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:31:16.289299+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}