Oaths Act 1888
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Long titleAn Act to amend the Law as to Oaths.
Citation51 & 52 Vict. c. 46
Territorial extentUnited Kingdom
Royal assent24 December 1888
| Act of Parliament | |
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| Long title | An Act to amend the Law as to Oaths. |
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| Citation | 51 & 52 Vict. c. 46 |
| Territorial extent | United Kingdom |
| Dates | |
| Royal assent | 24 December 1888 |
| Commencement | 24 December 1888[b] |
| Repealed | 30 July 1978 |
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| Amended by | |
| Repealed by | Oaths Act 1978 |
Status: Repealed | |
| Text of statute as originally enacted | |
The Oaths Act 1888[a] (51 & 52 Vict. c. 46) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom providing that all required oaths (including the oath of allegiance taken to the Sovereign, required in order to sit in Parliament) may be solemnly affirmed rather than sworn to God.[1] The act was the culmination of a campaign by the noted atheist and secularist MP Charles Bradlaugh to take his seat.[1]
The whole act by section 7(1) of, and part I of the schedule to, the Oaths Act 1978, which consolidated the act.[2]
