{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/promissory-oaths-act-1868/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/promissory-oaths-act-1868/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/31-32/72",
  "legislation_title": "Promissory Oaths Act 1868",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/promissory-oaths-act-1868",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Form of judicial oath.",
  "text": "The oath in this Act referred to as the judicial oath shall be in the form following; that is to say,\n“I, , do swear that I will well and truly serve our Sovereign Lady Queen Victoria in the office of , and I will do right to all manner of people after the laws and usages of this realm, without fear or favour, affection or illwill. So help me God.”",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 4 repealed (N.I.) (15.10.2002) by 2002 c. 26, s. 86, Sch. 13; S.R.2002/319, art. 2, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/31-32/72/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:57:47.897619+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."
}