15Oaths

15 Oaths

(1)  Subject to subsection (2) , a bishop, commissary, administrator, chancellor, archdeacon, or registrar holding office in any diocese of the Church may administer to any bishop, clergyman, or other member of the Church and that member may make or take the oaths used before the commencement of the Church of England Constitution Act 1961 on the occasion of –

(a) the ordaining of deacons or priests;

(b) the consecration or enthronement of bishops;

(c) the institution of clergy to a cure of souls in a parish or other ecclesiastical district; and

(d) an installation, induction, or collation to an office, or the grant of a licence in the Church in this State.

(2)  Part III of the Promissory Oaths Act 1869 does not affect, and shall be deemed at no time to have affected, any oath referred to in subsection (1) .

(3)  Nothing contained in subsection (1) or (2) affects the operation of section 11 of the Promissory Oaths Act 1869 .