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Section XII Persons authorized to administer or tender the Oaths of Stat. 1 W. & M. c. 8. may administer or tender the Oaths of this Act.

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

Refusal of Persons to whom Oath tendered, to be certified to Quarter Sessions by Person tendering the same, and recorded.

And be it further enacted That it shall and may be lawful to and for any Person or Persons lawfully authorized to administer or tender the Oaths mentioned and appointed to be taken by an Act of Parliament made in the First Year of the Reign of His present Majesty and of the late Queen intituled An Act for the abrogating the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance and appointing other Oaths to administer and tender the Oath herein before appointed to be taken to any Person or Persons whatsoever And if any Person or Persons to whom the said Oath shall be so tendred shall neglect or refuse to take the same the Person X1or Persons tendring the said Oath shall certify the Refusal thereof to the next Quarter Sessions of the County Riding Liberty Borough Town Corporate or Place in which such Refusal shall be made and the said Refusal shall be recorded amongst the Rolls of that Sessions and shall be from thence certified by the Clerk of the Peace of such County Riding Liberty Borough Town Corporate or Place into His Majesties Court of Chancery or Kings Bench there to be recorded amongst the Rolls of the said Courts in a Roll or Rolls there to be provided and kept for that Purpose only

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Editorial notes

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Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: and O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]