{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/oaths-act-1978/section-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/oaths-act-1978/section-8.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1978/19",
  "legislation_title": "Oaths Act 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/oaths-act-1978",
  "path": "section/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Short title, extent and commencement.",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Oaths Act 1978.\n(2) Part I of this Act does not extend to Scotland.\n(3) It is hereby declared that this Act extends to Northern Ireland.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) This Act shall come into force on the expiration of the period of one month from the date on which it is passed.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 8(4) repealed (28.3.2009 for certain purposes and 31.10.2009 otherwise) by Armed Forces Act 2006 (c. 52), ss. 378, 383, Sch. 17; S.I. 2009/812, art. 3 (with transitional provisions in {S.I. 2009/1059}); S.I. 2009/1167, art. 4"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1978/19/section/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T17:28:48.232951+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}