{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-act-1971/section-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-act-1971/section-22.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1971/23",
  "legislation_title": "Courts Act 1971",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-act-1971",
  "path": "section/22",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Oaths to be taken by Circuit judges and Recorders.",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the following provisions of this section, every Circuit judge and every Recorder shall take the oath of allegiance and the judicial oath; and the Promissory Oaths Act 1868 shall have effect as if the officers named in the Second Part of the Schedule to that Act included Circuit judges and Recorders.\n(2) Notwithstanding anything in the Promissory Oaths Act 1871, a Circuit judge shall take the oaths referred to in subsection (1) above before the Lord Chief Justice, and a Recorder shall take those oaths before a judge of the Court of Appeal or of the High Court or a Circuit judge.\n(3) Nothing in this section shall require an oath to be taken by a person who becomes a Circuit judge in accordance with any provision of Part I of Schedule 2 to this Act.\n(3A) The Lord Chief Justice may nominate a judicial office holder (as defined in section 109(4) of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005) to exercise his functions under subsection (2).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 22(2) substituted (3.4.2006) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 15, 148, Sch. 4 para. 70(2); S.I. 2006/1014, art. 2(a), Sch. 1 para. 11(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 22(3A) inserted (3.4.2006) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 15, 148, Sch. 4 para. 70(3); S.I. 2006/1014, art. 2(a), Sch. 1 para. 11(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1868 c. 72."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1871 c. 48."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/23/section/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:50:15.740722+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."
}