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Section 9 Prohibition of oath of allegiance except in accordance with Act.

United Kingdom

No person shall be required or authorized to take the oaths of allegiance, supremacy, and abjuration, or any of such oaths, or any oath substituted for such oaths, or any of them, . . . F1except the persons required to take the oath of allegiance by this Act F2and the M1Clerical Subscription Act 1865, and the M2Parliamentary Oaths Act 1866, F3and the Scotland Act 1998,or one of such Acts, any Act of Parliament, charter, or custom to the contrary notwithstanding; and no person shall be required or authorized to take the oath of assurance in Scotland.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1981 (c. 19), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. VIII

F2

Words repealed (N.I.) by Statute Law Revision (Northern Ireland) Act 1980 (c. 59), s. 1, Sch. Pt. III

F3

Words in s. 9 inserted (6.5.1999) by S.I. 1999/1042, art. 3, Sch. 1 para. 2(4)

Marginal citations

M1

1865 c. 122.

M2

1866 c. 19.