Oaths Act (NT)

NORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA

OATHS ACT

As in force at 1 July 2010

Table of provisions [if supportFields]><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&#160;</span>TOC \o &#34;1-9&#34; <span style='mso-element: field-separator'></span><![endif] — Preliminary1 — Short title4 — DefinitionsPart II — Oaths and affirmations5 — Form of oath of allegiance8 — Affirmation in lieu of oath9 — Form of affirmation10 — Persons entitled to take affirmations11 — Penalty on not taking prescribed oath12 — Prohibition on use of oath of allegiancePart III — Affidavits13 — Affidavits may be sworn before Justice15 — Judicial notice of signature of person before whom affidavit sworn16 — OffencesPart IV — Commissioner of Oaths17 — Commissioner for Oaths18 — Powers of Commissioner for Oaths19 — Judicial notice of signature20 — Circumstances where Commissioner may not actPart V — Forms of oaths22 — Manner of taking oathPart VA — Statutory declarations23A — Statutory declarations23C — Form of statutory declaration23CA — Recorded statutory declaration23D — Unattested declaration23E — Annexation clause23F — False statements in declarationsPart VI — Miscellaneous24 — Oaths may be taken in other forms25A — Taking evidence of persons incompetent to take oath or make declaration, &c.26 — Penalty for wilfully making false statements27 — Taking of oaths and affidavits out of Territory27A — Taking of affidavits out of the Territory, by sailors, soldiers and airmen28 — Extension of provisions relating to affidavits, to attestation, &c., of other documents29 — RegulationsSchedule 2 — Oath of allegianceSchedule 2A — Affirmation of allegianceSchedule 5 — Form of oathSchedule 7 — AffirmationSchedule 8Schedule 9Schedule 10ENDNOTES NORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA

NORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA

As in force at 1 July 2010

OATHS act

An Act relating to oaths, affirmations, declarations and attestations

Part IPreliminary 1Short title

This Act may be cited as the Oaths Act.

4Definitions

In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:

affidavit includes any affirmation, declaration, acknowledgement or examination.

Australian diplomatic or consular agent includes a person appointed to hold or act in any of the following offices (being an office of the Commonwealth) in a country or place outside Australia:

• (a)

  ambassador;

• (b)

  high commissioner;

• (c)

  minister;

• (d)

  head of mission;

• (e)

  commissioner;

• (f)

  charge d’affaires;

• (g)

  counsellor, secretary or attache at an embassy, high commissioner’s office, legation or other post;

• (h)

  consul-general;

• (i)

  consul;

• (j)

  vice-consul;

• (k)

  trade commissioner; and

• (l)

  consular agent.

consular agent means a consul-general, consul, vice-consul, pro‑consul or consular agent, or acting consul-general, acting consul, acting vice-consul, acting pro-consul or acting consular agent.

Court means any person, court, board, tribunal or other body who or which, by law or consent of parties, may take evidence on oath.

declaration means a statutory declaration or an unattested declaration.

diplomatic agent means an ambassador, envoy, minister, charge d’affaires, or secretary of an embassy or a legation.

instrument means instrument or document in writing.

Judge includes a person constituting, or member of, a Court which has authority to admit evidence.

notarial act includes any act, matter or thing which, in the Territory or elsewhere, a notary public can attest or verify or otherwise do by or under any law or custom or otherwise for the purpose of being used in the Territory.

oath includes affirmation and declaration.

Part IIOaths and affirmations 5Form of oath of allegiance

• (1)

  The oath of allegiance shall be in accordance with the form in Schedule 2.

• (2)

  The affirmation of allegiance shall be in accordance with the form in Schedule 2A.

8Affirmation in lieu of oath

Any person may make an affirmation in lieu of taking any oath.

9Form of affirmation

• (1)

  Every affirmation shall commence I,                       do solemnly, sincerely and truly affirm and shall proceed in the same words as the oath required or permitted by law under the same circumstances, omitting all words of imprecation or calling to witness, and the attestation of any affirmation in writing may be in the same words as the jurat of an affidavit substituting the word affirmed for the word sworn.

• (2)

  A person making an affirmation before a Court shall be addressed by an officer in accordance with the form in Schedule 7 and shall thereupon speak the words I do or otherwise signify his or her assent.

10Persons entitled to take affirmations

Every person authorized to administer an oath shall have authority to take an affirmation.

11Penalty on not taking prescribed oath

If any person declines or neglects to take any oath or affirmation required to be taken by him under any law for the time being in force in the Territory, he shall, if he has already entered on the office in relation to which the oath or affirmation is required, vacate that office, and, if he has not entered on that office, he shall be disqualified from entering on it, but a person shall not be compelled in respect of the same appointment to the same office to take an oath or make an affirmation more than once.

12Prohibition on use of oath of allegiance

Except as expressly required by some law in force in the Territory, a person shall not be required or authorized to take the oath of allegiance or any oath substituted for that oath or to make any affirmation or declaration to the like effect of that oath.

Part IIIAffidavits 13Affidavits may be sworn before Justice

Any affidavit required for the purposes of any proceeding or matter before any Court may be sworn in any place in the Territory before a Justice or a Commissioner for Oaths.

15Judicial notice of signature of person before whom affidavit sworn

Judicial and official notice shall be taken of the signature of a person before whom an affidavit may be sworn if the signature is contained in or subscribed to an affidavit purporting to be sworn before that person.

16Offences

• (1)

  Any person who wilfully makes any false statement in any affidavit shall be guilty of a crime.

  Penalty:          Imprisonment for 4 years.

• (2)

  Any person who wilfully takes any affidavit, not being lawfully authorized to do so, shall be guilty of an offence.

  Penalty:          $2,000 or imprisonment for 12 months.

Part IVCommissioner of Oaths 17Commissioner for Oaths

• (1)

  The following persons, by virtue of their office or position, are Commissioners for Oaths:

  • (a)

    a member of the Legislative Assembly;

  • (b)

    a member of either house of the Parliament of the Commonwealth elected to represent the Territory or a constituency in the Territory;

  • (c)

    a legal practitioner;

  • (e)

    a member of the Police Force who has attained the age of 18 years.

• (2)

  The Minister may appoint a person to be a Commissioner for Oaths for such period, not exceeding 5 years, as is specified in the notice.

• (3)

  The Minister may, at any time, in his absolute discretion, terminate an appointment under subsection (2).

18Powers of Commissioner for Oaths

• (1)

  A Commissioner for Oaths may:

  • (a)

    administer an oath;

  • (b)

    take an affidavit; or

  • (c)

    attest the execution of an instrument,

  for the purposes of a law in force in the Territory.

• (2)

  After witnessing the signing of a document or attesting the execution of an instrument, Commissioners for Oaths shall legibly write, type or stamp their name and contact address or telephone number below their own signature.

19Judicial notice of signature

Judicial notice shall be taken of the signature of a Commissioner for Oaths if it is contained in or subscribed to:

• (a)

  an affidavit purporting to be sworn before that Commissioner; or

• (b)

  an instrument containing a signature purporting to be attested by that Commissioner.

20Circumstances where Commissioner may not act

A Commissioner for Oaths shall not knowingly:

• (a)

  administer an oath;

• (b)

  take an affidavit; or

• (c)

  attest the execution of an instrument,

where that activity may confer, or have the effect of conferring, on the Commissioner or the Commissioner’s employer a direct or indirect benefit by way of the abandonment of a legal right or interest to which the person making the oath or affidavit or attesting the execution of the instrument would otherwise be entitled.

Part VForms of oaths 22Manner of taking oath

• (1)

  Subject to this Act, and unless the person to whom it is proposed to administer an oath requests that the oath be administered in some other manner, an oath, whether in judicial proceedings or otherwise, shall be administered and taken in the manner provided in this section.

• (2)

  The person taking the oath shall, standing up, hold a copy of the Bible, or the New Testament or the Old Testament in his hand and, after an oath in accordance with the form in Schedule 5 has been tendered by the officer administering it, shall utter the words So help me God!:

  Provided that no such oath shall be deemed to be illegal or invalid by reason of any breach of this section.

Part VAStatutory declarations 23AStatutory declarations

• (1)

  A person may, if the person so desires, make a statutory declaration in relation to any matter.

• (2)

  Subject to subsection (3) a statutory declaration may be used:

  • (a)

    for the purposes of a law in force in the Territory;

  • (b)

    in connection with a matter arising under any such law;

  • (c)

    in connection with the administration of an Agency, within the meaning of the Public Sector Employment and Management Act; or

  • (d)

    in connection with a commercial transaction in the Territory.

• (3)

  Subsection (2) does not authorize a statutory declaration to be used as evidence in a judicial proceeding but nothing in this section prevents a statutory declaration from being so used.

23CForm of statutory declaration

• (1)

  A statutory declaration may be in accordance with the form in Schedule 8 and shall:

  • (a)

    contain an acknowledgement that it is true in every particular and a statement to the effect that the person making a false declaration is guilty of an offence; and

  • (b)

    be signed by the person making it in the presence of a person who has attained the age of 18 years.

• (2)

  After witnessing the signing of a statutory declaration, the person by whom it is witnessed shall legibly write, type or stamp their name and contact address or telephone number below their own signature.

23CARecorded statutory declaration

• (1)

  A person may make a statutory declaration by audio tape, video-tape or other audio-visual recording means.

• (2)

  A recorded declaration must include a statement by the person making the declaration that it is true in every particular and that the person is aware that making a false declaration is an offence.

• (3)

  A recorded declaration must be witnessed by a person who has attained the age of 18 years.

• (4)

  A person who witnesses a recorded declaration:

  • (a)

    if an audio-visual recording – must appear on the recording at the conclusion of the declaration and state:

    • (i)

      that he or she witnessed the recording of the declaration in full or the making of the statement under subsection (2) (as the case may be); and

    • (ii)

      his or her name and contact address or telephone number; or

  • (b)

    if an audio recording – must state on the recording at the conclusion of the declaration:

    • (i)

      that he or she witnessed the recording of the declaration in full or the making of the statement under subsection (2) (as the case may be); and

    • (ii)

      his or her name and contact address or telephone number.

• (5)

  A person who tampers with a recorded declaration, or edits the recording in a manner that gives a false or misleading impression, is guilty of an offence.

  Penalty:          20 penalty units or imprisonment for 12 months.

23DUnattested declaration

• (1)

  A person may make an unattested declaration in relation to a matter for which a law in force in the Territory or an agreement, custom or practice authorizes or permits an unattested declaration to be made.

• (2)

  An unattested declaration may be made in accordance with the form in Schedule 10 and shall contain an acknowledgement that it is true in every particular and a statement to the effect that a person making a false declaration is guilty of an offence.

23EAnnexation clause

A person who makes a statutory declaration or an unattested declaration may identify anything referred to in that declaration by attaching to the thing to be identified an annexation clause made in accordance with the form in Schedule 9 and, in the case of a statutory declaration, signed by the person before whom the declaration is made.

23FFalse statements in declarations

A person shall not make a false statement in a statutory declaration or unattested declaration.

Penalty:          $2,000 or imprisonment for 12 months.

Part VIMiscellaneous 24Oaths may be taken in other forms

Notwithstanding anything in this Act or any other law for the time being in force in the Territory:

• (a)

  an oath, whether in judicial proceedings or otherwise, may be administered and taken in any form and in any manner which would have been lawful if this Act had not been made;

• (b)

  every such oath shall be binding for all purposes if it is administered and taken in any form and in any manner which the person taking it declares to be binding; and

• (c)

  where any such oath has been administered and taken, the fact that the person taking it had not at the time any religious belief shall not for any purpose affect the legality or validity of the oath.

25ATaking evidence of persons incompetent to take oath or make declaration, &c.

• (1)

  Where a person called as a witness in a Court or before a justice or other person authorized to administer an oath appears to the Court, Justice or person authorized to be incapable of comprehending the nature of an oath or of understanding the meaning of an affirmation, the Court, Justice or person authorized may, if satisfied that the person called as a witness:

  • (a)

    has attained the age of 14 years and understands that he will be liable to punishment if the evidence is false; or

  • (b)

    has not attained the age of 14 years and is capable of giving an intelligible account of his experience,

  receive the evidence of that person with the same consequences as if an oath had been administered in the ordinary manner.

• (2)

  Nothing in subsection (1) shall affect or be deemed to affect in any way the operation of any law or rule of law or practice relating to the corroboration of evidence.

• (3)

  Subsections (1) and (2) extend and apply mutatis mutandis to interpreters called to interpret in a proceedings in a court or before a justice or other person authorized to administer an oath.

26Penalty for wilfully making false statements

Any person who, having made an affirmation, wilfully gives false evidence before any Court or makes any false statement in any information, complaint, proceeding, affidavit or deposition, knowing the evidence or statement to be false, shall be guilty of a crime.

Penalty:          Imprisonment for 4 years.

27Taking of oaths and affidavits out of Territory

• (1)

  Any oath or affidavit required for the purpose of any Court or matter in the Territory may be taken or made, in any place out of the Territory, before:

  • (a)

    a Commissioner for Affidavits (by whatever name called) empowered and authorized to act in that place;

  • (b)

    a British or Australian diplomatic or consular agent exercising his function in that place;

  • (c)

    any person having authority to administer an oath in that place; or

  • (d)

    an employee of the Commonwealth or the Australian Trade Commission who is authorised to administer an oath or receive an affirmation under section 3(c) or (d) of the Consular Fees Act 1995 of the Commonwealth by the Secretary of the Commonwealth Department primarily responsible for foreign affairs.

• (2)

  Judicial and official notice may be taken:

  • (a)

    of the signature or seal of a Commissioner or agent referred to in subsection (1)(a) or (b);

  • (ab)

    of the signature or seal of a person referred to in subsection (1)(c) who has authority to administer an oath if the person purports to have the authority otherwise than by the law of a foreign country not under the dominion of Her Majesty;

  • (ac)

    of the signature or seal of a person authorised in accordance with subsection (1)(d); and

  • (b)

    of the fact that any particular place is under the dominion of Her Majesty.

• (3)

  In the case of a person purporting to have authority to administer an oath by the law of a foreign country not under the dominion of Her Majesty, the authority may be verified by any of the persons mentioned in subsection (1)(a) or (b), or by the certificate of the superior court of such place, and, if the authority purports to be so verified, the oath or affidavit may be admitted or received without further proof of the signature or seal, or the judicial, official or other character of such first-mentioned person.

27ATaking of affidavits out of the Territory, by sailors, soldiers and airmen

• (1)

  Any oath or affidavit required to be made by any member of a fighting force, for the purpose of any court or matter in the Territory, may be taken or made in any place out of the Territory before any officer of any naval, military or air force of any part of Her Majesty’s dominions who holds a rank not below the following, namely:

  • (a)

    in the case of a naval officer, lieutenant;

  • (b)

    in the case of a military officer, captain;

  • (c)

    in the case of an officer of an air force, flight-lieutenant,

  or before any person having the authority to administer an oath in the Territory.

• (2)

  An officer administering an oath or taking an affidavit by virtue of the powers conferred by this section shall state in the jurat or attestation to the oath or affidavit:

  • (a)

    the date on which the oath or affidavit is taken or sworn; and

  • (b)

    the full name and rank of the officer.

• (3)

  An apparently genuine signature purporting to be the signature of a person administering an oath or taking an affidavit, and purporting to be the signature of an officer of a naval, military or air force of any part of Her Majesty’s dominions who holds a rank not below that specified in subsection (1), may be deemed to be the signature of such an officer unless the contrary is shown.

• (4)

  In this section:

  a reference to Her Majesty’s dominions applies to and includes a territory administered by Her Majesty under a Trusteeship Agreement and a protectorate and a protected State over which Her Majesty extends protection, as though that territory, protectorate or protected State were part of Her Majesty’s dominions.

  member of a fighting force includes any person who is a member of a naval, military or air force of any country, and any person who, as a representative or employee of any charitable, religious or other organization for promoting the welfare of members of any such force, is attached to any such force.

28Extension of provisions relating to affidavits, to attestation, &c., of other documents

• (1)

  Sections 27 and  27A shall, so far as applicable, extend to every attestation, verification, acknowledgment or signature in relation to any document required, authorized or permitted by or under any law or by custom or otherwise to be attested, verified, acknowledged or signed, and to the doing of all notarial acts as if those sections had been re-enacted in this section, excluding words relating to the administration of oaths and the taking of affidavits and substituting therefor words relating to attestation, verification, acknowledgment or signature, as the case may be.

• (2)

  This section applies to documents required, authorized or permitted by or under the Land Title Act.

29Regulations

The Administrator may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, prescribing matters:

• (a)

  required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed; or

• (b)

  necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act,

and in particular providing for the issuing of certificates of appointment of Commissioners for Oaths.

Schedule 2Oath of allegiance

section 5

I,                       do swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to our Sovereign Lady the Queen according to law, so help me God!.

Schedule 2AAffirmation of allegiance

section 5(2)

I,                      do solemnly, sincerely and truly affirm that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to our Sovereign Lady the Queen according to law.

Schedule 5Form of oath

section 22

The evidence you are now about to give shall be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Schedule 7Affirmation

section 9(2)

Do you,                           , solemnly, sincerely and truly affirm and declare, etc. . . . .

Schedule 8

OATHS ACT

STATUTORY DECLARATION

section 23C(1)

I, (1)                       do solemnly and sincerely declare (2)

And I make this solemn declaration by virtue of the Oaths Act and conscientiously believing the statements contained in this declaration to be true in every particular.

Declared at

the                     day of                      19

(3)

Before me

(4)

(5)

• Apersonwilfullymakingafalsestatementinastatutorydeclarationisliabletoa

  NOTE: penalty of $2,000 or imprisonment for 12 months, or both.

  ______________________________________________________________

(1) Name and address of person making the declaration

(2)        Here insert the matter declared to either directly following the word “declare” or, if the matter is lengthy, insert the words “as follows” and       thereafter set out the matter in numbered paragraphs

(3) Signature of the person making the declaration

(4) Signature of the person before whom the declaration is made

• Nameandcontactaddressortelephonenumberofpersonbefore

  (5) whom the declaration is made legibly written, typed or stamped.

• Thisdeclarationmaybemadebeforeanypersonwhohasattainedthe

  (6)              age of 18 years.

Schedule 9

OATHS ACT

ANNEXATION CLAUSE

section 23E

This is the (1) referred to in the statutory declaration [or declaration as the case requires] of (2)

Declared at

the                     day of                     19

Before me

(3)

(4)

______________________________________________________

(1)        Description of thing to be identified

(2) Name and address of person making the declaration

(3) Signature of the person before whom the declaration is made

(4) In the case of a statutory declaration, the name and contact address or telephone number of person before whom the declaration is made legibly written, typed or stamped.

Schedule 10

OATHS ACT

UNATTESTED DECLARATION

section 23D

I, (1)                       do solemnly and sincerely declare (2)

And I make this solemn declaration by virtue of the Oaths Act conscientiously believing the statements contained in this declaration to be true in every particular.

Declared at

the                     day of                     19

(3)

NOTE: A person wilfully making a false statement in a declaration is liable to a penalty of $2,000 or imprisonment for 12 months, or both.

____________________________________________________________

(1) Name and address of person making the declaration

(2)        Here insert the matter declared to either directly following the word “declare” or, if the matter is lengthy, insert the words “as follows”and thereafter set out the matter in numbered paragraphs

(3) Signature of the person making the declaration.

ENDNOTES

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  KEY

Key to abbreviations

 

amd = amended od = order

app = appendix om = omitted

bl = by-law pt = Part

ch = Chapter r = regulation/rule

cl = clause rem = remainder

div = Division renum = renumbered

exp = expires/expired rep = repealed

f = forms s = section

Gaz = Gazette sch = Schedule

hdg = heading sdiv = Subdivision

ins = inserted SL = Subordinate Legislation

lt = long title sub = substituted

nc = not commenced

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  LIST OF LEGISLATION

Oaths Ordinance1939 (Act No. 23, 1939)
Assent date		16 November 1939
Commenced		16 November 1939
Oaths Ordinance1952 (Act No. 2, 1952)
Assent date		23 January 1952
Commenced		23 January 1952
Oaths Ordinance1953 (Act No. 13, 1953)
Assent date		29 June 1953
Commenced		29 June 1953
Oaths Ordinance1960 (Act No. 14, 1960)
Assent date		9 September 1960
Commenced		9 September 1960
Oaths Ordinance1965 (Act No. 34, 1965)
Assent date		24 September 1965
Commenced		24 September 1965
Oaths Ordinance1967 (Act No. 24, 1967)
Assent date		22 June 1967
Commenced		22 June 1967
Oaths Ordinance1970 (Act No. 63, 1970)
Assent date		8 December 1970
Commenced		8 December 1970
Ordinances RevisionOrdinance 1973 (Act No. 87, 1973)
Assent date		11 December 1973
Commenced		11 December 1973 (s 12(2))
Amending legislation
Ordinances Revision Ordinance 1974 (Act No. 34, 1974)
Assent date	26 August 1974
Commenced	11 December 1973 (s 3(2))
Ordinances Revision Ordinance (No. 2) 1974 (Act No. 69, 1974)
Assent date	24 October 1974
Commenced	11 December 1973 (s 3)
Ordinances Revision Ordinance 1976 (Act No. 27, 1976)
Assent date	28 June 1976
Commenced	ss 1, 2 and 6: 28 June 1976 (s 6(2)); ss 3 and 4: 11 December 1973; s 5: 24 October 1974
Transfer of Powers (Further Provisions) Ordinance1977 (Act No. 51, 1977)
Assent date		9 December 1977
Commenced		1 January 1978 (s 2
Oaths Ordinance1978 (Act No. 22, 1978)
Assent date		31 May 1978
Commenced		3 November 1978 (Gaz No. 44, 3 November 1978, p 18)
Transfer of Powers (Self-Government)Ordinance1978 (Act No. 54, 1978)
Assent date		1 July 1978
Commenced		1 July 1978 (s 8)
Statute Law RevisionAct (No. 3) 1979 (Act No. 37, 1980)
Assent date		24 April 1980
Commenced		24 April 1980
Oaths Amendment Act 1981 (Act No. 35, 1981)
Assent date		30 March 1981
Commenced		27 November 1981 (Gaz G47, 27 November 1981, p 2)
Statute Law Revision Act (No. 4) 1981
Assent date		12 February 1982
Commenced		12 February 1982
Oaths Amendment Act 1988 (Act No. 39, 1988)
Assent date		14 September 1988
Commenced		1 November 1988 (Gaz G42, 19 October 1988, p 2)
Oaths Amendment Act1989 (Act No. 1, 1989)
Assent date		13 March 1989
Commenced		13 March 1989
Statute Law Revision Act 1989 (Act No. 60, 1989)
Assent date		2 October 1989
Commenced		2 October 1989
Oaths Amendment Act 1991 (Act No. 49, 1991)
Assent date		26 September 1991
Commenced		1 January 1992 (s 2, s 2 Justices of the Peace Act 1991 (Act No. 42, 1991) and Gaz G50, 18 December 1991, p 3)
Oaths Amendment Act 1993 (Act No. 81, 1993)
Assent date		13 December 1993
Commenced		29 March 1994 (Gaz G11, 16 March 1994, p 3)
Oaths Amendment Act 1994 (Act No. 15, 1994)
Assent date		6 April 1994
Commenced		1 August 1994 (Gaz G29, 20 July 1994, p 2)
Land Title (Consequential Amendments) Act 2000 (Act No. 45, 2000)
Assent date		12 September 2000
Commenced		1 December 2000 (s 2, s 2 Land Title Act 2000 (Act No. 2, 2000) and Gaz G38, 27 September 2000, p 2)
Oaths Amendment Act 2000 (Act No. 47, 2000)
Assent date		23 October 2000
Commenced		29 November 2000 (Gaz G47, 29 November 2000, p 2)
Evidence Reform (Children and Sexual Offences) Act 2004 (Act No. 56, 2004)
Assent date		4 November 2004
Commenced		8 December 2004 (Gaz G49, 8 December 2004, p 3)
Legal Profession (Consequential Amendments) Act 2007 (Act No. 7, 2007)
Assent date		17 May 2007
Commenced		s 10: 1 July 2007 (Gaz G26, 27 June 2007, p 3); rem: 17 May 2007
Justice Legislation Amendment (Penalties) Act 2010 (Act No. 12, 2010)
Assent date		20 May 2010
Commenced		1 July 2010 (Gaz G24, 16 June 2010, p 2)

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  SAVINGS AND TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

s 18 Oaths Amendment Act 1988 (Act No. 39, 1988)

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  GENERAL AMENDMENTS

General amendments of a formal nature (which are not referred to in the table of amendments to this reprint) are made by the Ordinances Revision Ordinance 1973 (Act No. 87, 1973) (as amended) to:   ss 2, 7, 14, 16, 25A, 26 and 28.

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  LIST OF AMENDMENTS

lt                       amd No. 4, 1982, s 3

s 1                     amd No. 4, 1982, s 3

s 2                     amd No. 22, 1978, s 4; No. 4, 1982, s 3

rep No. 49, 1991, s 3

s 3                     amd No. 34, 1965, s 2

rep No. 22, 1978, s 5

s 4                     amd No. 13, 1953, s 2; No. 14, 1960, s 2; No. 34, 1965, s 3; No. 4, 1982, s 3; No. 39, 1988, s 4; No. 49, 1991, s 3

pt II hdg             sub No. 39, 1988, s 5

s 5                     amd No. 4, 1982, s 3; No. 49, 1991, s 3

s 6                     amd No. 4, 1982, s 3

rep No. 49, 1991, s 3

s 7                     amd No. 4, 1982, s 3; No. 39, 1988, s 6

rep No. 49, 1991, s 3

ss 8 – 10            amd No. 49, 1991, s 3

s 13                   amd No. 39, 1988, s 7

s 14                   amd No. 4, 1982, s 3

rep No. 39, 1988, s 8

s 15                   sub No. 39, 1988, s 8

s 16                   amd No. 4, 1982, s 3; No. 39, 1988, s 9; No. 49, 1991, s 3; No. 12, 2010, s 3

pt IV hdg            sub No. 34, 1965, s 4

s 17                   sub No. 34, 1965, s 5

amd No. 63, 1970, s 2; No. 51, 1977, s 3; No. 54, 1978, s 3; No. 4, 1982, s 3

sub No. 39, 1988, s 10

amd No. 49, 1991, s 3; No. 7, 2007, s 16

s 17A                 ins No. 34, 1965, s 5

rep No. 39, 1988, s 10

s 18                   amd No. 34, 1965, s 6; No. 87, 1973, s 12; No. 37, 1980, s 28

sub No. 39, 1988, s 10

s 19                   rep No. 34, 1965, s 7

ins No. 39, 1988, s 10

s 20                   amd No. 87, 1973, s 12; No. 37, 1980, s 28

sub No. 4, 1982, s 3; No. 39, 1988, s 10

s 21                   amd No. 4, 1982, s 3

rep No. 81, 1993, s 4

s 22                   amd No. 4, 1982, s 3; No. 81, 1993, s 5

s 23                   amd No. 4, 1982, s 3

rep No. 60, 1989, s 6

pt VA hdg          ins No. 22, 1978, s 6

s 23A                 ins No. 22, 1978, s 6

amd No. 4, 1982, s 3; No. 81, 1993, s 6

s 23B                 ins No. 22, 1978, s 6

amd No. 4, 1982, s 3

rep No. 81, 1993, s 7

s 23C                 ins No. 22, 1978, s 6

amd No. 35, 1981, s 4; No. 4, 1982, s 3

sub No. 39, 1988, s 11

s 23CA               ins No. 56, 2004, s 14

amd No. 12, 2010, s 3

s 23D                 ins No. 22, 1978, s 6

amd No. 4, 1982, s 3

sub No. 39, 1988, s 11

s 23E                 ins No. 39, 1988, s 11

s 23F                 ins No. 39, 1988, s 11

amd No. 12, 2010, s 3

s 24                   amd No. 87, 1973, s 12; No. 37, 1980, s 28; No. 4, 1982, s 3; No. 81, 1993, s 8

s 25                   amd No. 24, 1967, s 2; No. 4, 1982, s 3

rep No. 49, 1991, s 3

s 25A                 ins No. 24, 1967, s 3

amd No. 87, 1973, s 12; No. 4, 1982, s 3; No. 1, 1989, s 2; No. 15, 1994, s 3; No. 47, 2000, s 4

s 25B                 ins No. 35, 1981, s 5

rep No. 39, 1988, s 12

s 26                   amd No. 49, 1991, s 3; No. 47, 2000, s 5; No. 12, 2010, s 3

s 27                   amd No. 2, 1952, s 2; No. 87, 1973, s 12; No. 4, 1982, s 3; No. 39, 1988, s 13; No. 47, 2000, s 6

s 27A                 ins No. 14, 1960, s 3

amd No. 4, 1982, s 3

s 28                   amd No. 14, 1960, s 4; No. 87, 1973, s 12; No. 4, 1982, s 3; No. 45, 2000, s 11

s 29                   ins No. 39, 1988, s 14

sch hdg             om No. 87, 1973, s 12

sch 1                 amd No. 22, 1978, s 7; No. 4, 1982, s 3

rep No. 49, 1991, s 3

sch 2                 amd No. 14, 1960, s 5; No. 87, 1973, s 12; No. 4, 1982, s 3

sch 2A               ins No. 49, 1991, s 3

sch 3                 amd No. 87, 1973, s 12; No. 4, 1982, s 3

rep No. 49, 1991, s 3

sch 4                 amd No. 87, 1973, s 12; No. 4, 1982, s 3

rep No. 81, 1993, s 9

sch 5                 amd No. 4, 1982, s 3

sub No. 81, 1993, s 9

sch 6                 amd No. 4, 1983, s 3

rep No. 60, 1989, s 6

sch 7                 sub No. 24, 1967, s 4

amd No. 4, 1982, s 3; No. 47, 2000, s 7

sch 8                 ins No. 22, 1978, s 8

amd No. 4, 1982, s 3; No. 39, 1988, s 15; No. 12, 2010, s 3

sch 9                 ins No. 22, 1978, s 8

amd No. 4, 1982, s 3; No. 39, 1988, s 16

sch 10                ins No. 39, 1988, s 17

amd No. 12, 2010, s 3