The enactments specified in Part I of the Schedule to this Act (consequential repeals) and Part II of that Schedule (enactment obsolete since the Oaths Act 1888 M1) are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.

In so far as anything done under an enactment repealed by this Act could have been done under a corresponding provision of this Act, it shall not be invalidated by the repeal but shall have effect as if done under that provision.

Where any instrument or document refers, either expressly or by implication, to an enactment repealed by this Act, the reference shall, except where the context otherwise requires, be construed as, or as including, a reference to the corresponding provision of this Act.

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M2Nothing in this Act shall be taken as prejudicing the operation of section 38 of the Interpretation Act 1889 (which relates to the effect of repeals).

This Act may be cited as the Oaths Act 1978.

Part I of this Act does not extend to Scotland.

It is hereby declared that this Act extends to Northern Ireland.

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This Act shall come into force on the expiration of the period of one month from the date on which it is passed.