Commissioners for affidavits (1871) (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

ANNO TRICESIMO QUINTO

VICTORIA: REGIN1E.

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No. III.

AN ACT to empower the Chief Justice to grant com- missions for taking affidavits to be made use of in the Supreme Court, and for taking the acknowledgments of Deeds executed by married women.

[Assented to, 4th August, 1871.]

HEREAS it has been found inconvenient that no persons preamble.

Wswearing of affidavits to be made use of in the Supreme Court, andare empowered to grant commissions for the taking and

for taking the acknowledgments of Deeds executed by married women: Be it therefore enacted, by His Excellency The Governor of Western Australia and its Dependencies, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows ; that is to say-

1 IT shall be lawful for the Chief Justice for the time being, The Chief Tusticep

by commission or commissions under the seal of the Supreme Court point Commissionermtoa3taake of the Colony, from time to time, as need shall require, to appoint affidavics, &e., and ackno■v.. led.gments of married

and empower as many persons as he shall think fit and necessary women.

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35° liTICTORIE, No. 3.

Commissions for taking Affidavits.

in places either within or beyond the jurisdiction of the said Court, to administer oaths, and take and receive all and every such affidavit and affidavits, declarations, or affirmations as any person or persons shall be willing and desirous to make before any of the persons so empowered in or concerning any cause, matter, or thing depending or hereafter to be depending, or anywise concerning any of the proceedings in the said Court; and to take the acknowledgments of Deeds executed by married women.

Affidavits, &c.. taken before	2 ALL affidavits, declarations, or affirmations taken or made
Commissioner shall be read

and made use of in the	before any Commissioner appointed or empowered as aforesaid shall
Supreme Court as affidavits
&e., now are.	be read and made use of in the said Court, to all intents and pur- poses as other affidavits, declarations, or affirmations taken or made in the said Court now are, or by the practice of the Court at any time hereafter may be.

Commissioners may receive	3 ANY acknowledgment to be made by any married woman,
acknowledgments of mar-

ried wom en under provisions	whether within or out of the said Colony, of any Deed, under the
of Ordinances 2nd Wm 4th	provisions of the Ordinances 2nd Wm. 4th No. 7, s. 4, and 19th
No. 7, s. 4, and 19th Vict.
No. 3, s. 4.	Vict. No. 3, s. 4, may be received by any Commissioner appointed and empowered as aforesaid, in the same manner as such acknow- ledgment may now be received by the Judge of the Court of the said Colony.

In the name and on behalf of the Queen I hereby assent to

this Act.

FRED. A. WELD, Governor.

By Authority : RICHARD PEWTER, Government Printer, Perth.