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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/first-tier-tribunal-for-scotland-oaths-regulations-2017/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2017/148",
  "legislation_title": "The First-tier Tribunal for Scotland (Oaths) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/first-tier-tribunal-for-scotland-oaths-regulations-2017",
  "path": "note",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nParagraph 11 of schedule 7 of the Tribunals (Scotland) Act 2014 requires a Chamber President in, and members of, the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland to take “the required oaths”, being the oath of allegiance and the judicial oath as set out in the Promissory Oaths Act 1868.\nRegulation 2 allows a person who is to become a Chamber President to take the oaths prior to taking up that office, where that person is the President of an existing listed tribunal and has received a letter from the Scottish Ministers stating their intention to appoint him or her as a Chamber President.\nRegulation 3 makes provision allowing a person who is to become a member of the First-tier Tribunal in connection with the transfer to that Tribunal of the functions of an existing tribunal to take the oaths on a day prior to membership commencing. The oaths may be taken in the presence of the President of the existing tribunal in question or of a person who is to become a Chamber President in the chamber of the Tribunal to which the functions of that existing tribunal are to be allocated.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2017/148/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:18:44.924000+00:00"
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  "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."
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