Section 7 Penalty on not taking required oath.

If any officer specified in the schedule hereto F1or any member of the Scottish Executivedeclines or neglects, when any oath required to be taken by him under this Act F2or section 84(4) of the Scotland Act 1998 is duly tendered, to take such oath, he shall, if he has already entered on his office, vacate the same, and if he has not entered on the same be disqualified from entering on the same; but no person shall be compelled, in respect of the same appointment to the same office, to take such oath . . . F3more times than one.