{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/promissory-oaths-act-1868/section-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/promissory-oaths-act-1868/section-9.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/31-32/72",
  "legislation_title": "Promissory Oaths Act 1868",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/promissory-oaths-act-1868",
  "path": "section/9",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Prohibition of oath of allegiance except in accordance with Act.",
  "text": "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, . . . except the persons required to take the oath of allegiance by this Act and the Clerical Subscription Act 1865, and the Parliamentary Oaths Act 1866, and 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.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1981 (c. 19), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. VIII"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words repealed (N.I.) by Statute Law Revision (Northern Ireland) Act 1980 (c. 59), s. 1, Sch. Pt. III"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 9 inserted (6.5.1999) by S.I. 1999/1042, art. 3, Sch. 1 para. 2(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1865 c. 122."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1866 c. 19."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/31-32/72/section/9",
    "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."
}