{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commissioners-for-oaths-act-1889/section-2",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/52-53/10",
  "legislation_title": "Commissioners For Oaths Act 1889",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commissioners-for-oaths-act-1889",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Powers of certain officers of court, &c. to administer oaths.",
  "text": "Every person who, being an officer of or performing duties in relation to any court, is for the time being so authorised by a judge of the court, or by or in pursuance of any rules or orders regulating the procedure of the court, and every person directed to take an examination in any cause or matter in the Senior Courts, shall have authority to administer any oath or take any affidavit required for any purpose connected with his duties.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 2 substituted (1.10.2009) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 59, 148, Sch. 11 para. 15(2); S.I. 2009/1604, art. 2(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/52-53/10/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:35:23.395218+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."
}