Explanatory Notes

Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2002

2002 CHAPTER 26

24th July 2002

Commentary

Part 1: the Judiciary.

Other Provisions

Section 19:  Judicial oath or affirmation

38.This section extends the number of posts required to take a judicial oath and provides for a new form of oath or affirmation and declaration. This oath is to be taken by appointees to the judicial offices listed in Schedule 6, which can be amended by the Lord Chancellor (subsection (4)). It replaces the current Oath of Allegiance and the Judicial Oath set out in the Promissory Oaths Act 1868. These oaths are set out in full in paragraph 6.24 of the Review.