Part III

Judicial and Other Offices and Judicial Pensions

Judges

Judicial oaths.
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1
A person holding any of the following offices—
a
district judge, including district judge of the principal registry of the Family Division;
b
Master of the Queen’s Bench Division;
c
Master of the Chancery Division;
d
Insolvency and Companies Court Judge ;
e
Taxing Master of the Senior Courts ;
f
Admiralty Registrar,
shall take the oath of allegiance and the judicial oath before a judge of the High Court or a Circuit judge.
2
The Promissory Oaths Act 1868 shall have effect as if the offices listed in the Second Part of the Schedule to that Act included those offices.
Words in s. 76 substituted (1.10.2009) by Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 59, 148, Sch. 11 para. 4; S.I. 2009.1604, {art. 2(d)}
1868 c. 72.
Words in s. 76(1)(d) substituted (26.2.2018) by The Alteration of Judicial Titles (Registrar in Bankruptcy of the High Court) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/130), art. 1, Sch. para. 8(a)