{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commissioners-for-oaths-act-1889/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/commissioners-for-oaths-act-1889/section-4.json",
  "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/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Appointment of persons to administer oaths for prize proceedings.",
  "text": "The Lord Chancellor may, whenever it appears to him neccessary to do so, authorise any person to administer oaths and take affidavits for any purpose relating to prize proceedings in the Senior Courts, whilst that person is on the high seas or out of Her Majesty’s dominions, and it shall not be necessary to affix any stamp to the document by which he is so authorised.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 4 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/4",
    "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."
}