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Administration of Justice Act 1964
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30Promissory oaths of justices of the peace
(1)Subject to the provisions of this section, any person who under this Act or any other enactment is a justice of the peace for any area by virtue of any other office held by him shall, before acting as such a justice, take the oath of allegiance and judicial oath in accordance with the Promissory Oaths Acts.
(2)A person shall not be required by virtue of this section to take the said oaths as a justice of the peace by reason only of his being appointed under this Act or any other enactment to act temporarily as deputy for, or as if he were, the holder of any office to which subsection (1) of this section applies; but those oaths may be taken by and administered to any such person notwithstanding anything in the Promissory Oaths Acts or any other enactment.
(3)A person shall not be required by virtue of this section to take the said oaths as a justice of the peace for any area if, at the time of his appointment or election to the office in question, he is already a justice of the peace for that area and has taken those oaths as such.
(4)A person who is a justice of the peace for any of the London commission areas (including a person who is such a justice by virtue of any other office held by him) shall not be required to take the said oaths as such if, being a justice of the peace for any other of those areas, he takes or has taken those oaths as such.
(5)In this section " the Promissory Oaths Acts " means the Promissory Oaths Act 1868 and the Promissory Oaths Act 1871.
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