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  "long_title": "This Order prescribes Welsh forms of oaths and affirmations which certain members of the Welsh Assembly Government, and members of the National Assembly for Wales, are required by the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32) (“GOWA 2006”) to take. GOWA 2006 provides that the English forms of those oaths and affirmations are to be ones which are contained in the Promissory Oaths Act 1868 (c. 72) and the Oaths Act 1978 (c. 19)",
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