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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/evidence-act-1851/section-16",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/14-15/99",
  "legislation_title": "Evidence Act 1851",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/evidence-act-1851",
  "path": "section/16",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Court, &c. may administer oaths.",
  "text": "Every court, judge, justice, officer, commissioner, arbitrator, or other person, now or hereafter having by law or by consent of parties authority to hear, receive, and examine evidence, is hereby empowered to administer an oath to all such witnesses as are legally called before them respectively.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/14-15/99/section/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:24:16.699483+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."
}