{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/post-office-act-1660/section-XII",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/post-office-act-1660/section-XII.json",
  "legislation": "aep/Cha2/12/35",
  "legislation_title": "Post Office Act 1660",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/post-office-act-1660",
  "path": "section/XII",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "XII",
  "heading": "Officers in the Post Office to take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy.",
  "text": "Provided alsoe and be it Enacted by the Authoritie aforesaid that noe person or persons shall be capeable of haveing useing or exercising the Office of Post Master Generall or any other imployment relating to the said Office unlesse he or they shall first take the Oathes of Alleigiance and Supremacy before any two Justices of the Peace, of the respective Countyes wherein such person or persons are or shall be resident, which said Justices are hereby authorized to administer the said Oathes accordingly.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Cha2/12/35/section/XII",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:32:27.496329+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."
}