Section 2 Persons before whom oaths to be taken.C1

Whereas by the M1Promissory Oaths Act 1868, it is provided that the oaths of allegiance and judicial oath should be taken by each of certain officers therein mentioned, in manner in which the oaths required to be taken by such officer previously to the passing of that Act would have been taken; and it is desirable, with a view to the revision of the statute law, to define the manner in which such oaths are to be taken: each such officer shall take the said oaths before such persons as Her Majesty may from time to time appoint; or,

F1In England and Wales—

F3The Lord Chief Justice may nominate a judicial office holder (as defined in section 109(4) of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005) to exercise his functions under the preceding paragraph.

In Scotland, in the Court of Session in open court before one or more of the judges of that court, F4. . ., or in open court before the court of the F5sheriff principal of the sheriffdom for which the person taking the oaths acts as justice F6F7, sheriff or summary sheriff, or, for a part-time sheriff or part-time summary sheriff, in open court before any sheriff principal:

In Ireland, before F8the Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, or in the High Court, in open court before one or more of the judges of such court, F9or at the county court.