{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/promissory-oaths-act-1868/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/promissory-oaths-act-1868/section-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/31-32/72",
  "legislation_title": "Promissory Oaths Act 1868",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/promissory-oaths-act-1868",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Penalty on not taking required oath.",
  "text": "If any officer specified in the schedule hereto or any member of the Scottish Executivedeclines or neglects, when any oath required to be taken by him under this Act or 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 . . . more times than one.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 7 inserted (6.5.1999) by S.I. 1999/1042, art. 3, Sch. 1 para. 2(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 7 inserted (6.5.1999) by S.I. 1999/1042, art. 3, Sch. 1 para. 2(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1981 (c. 19), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. VIII"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/31-32/72/section/7",
    "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."
}