OATHS ACT 1900 - As at 14 July 2023 - Act 20 of 1900 - NOTES

Reprint history (since 1972)--

Reprint No 1   5 November 1973

Reprint No 2   28 June 1978

Reprint No 3   13 February 1989

Reprint No 4   2 July 1992

Reprint No 5   7 May 1996

Reprint No 6   27 November 2001

Reprint No 7   23 May 2006

Historical notes

The following abbreviations are used in the Historical notes:

Am	amended	LW	legislation website	Sch	Schedule
Cl	clause	No	number	Schs	Schedules
Cll	clauses	p	page	Sec	section
Div	Division	pp	pages	Secs	sections
Divs	Divisions	Reg	Regulation	Subdiv	Subdivision
GG	Government Gazette	Regs	Regulations	Subdivs	Subdivisions
Ins	inserted	Rep	repealed	Subst	substituted

See also Crimes Act 1900, Part 7; Statutory Declarations Act 1959 (Commonwealth); Anglican Church of Australia Constitution Act 1961, secs 8, 9; and Registrar-General Act 1973, sec 5.

Table of amending instruments

Oaths Act 1900 No 20. Assented to 22.9.1900. Date of commencement, 1.1.1901, sec 1A. This Act has been amended by this Act, sec 18(3) and as follows--

1916	No 5	Oaths (Amendment) Act 1916. Assented to 29.3.1916.
1936	No 12	Oaths (Amendment) Act 1936. Assented to 13.5.1936.
1937	No 35	Statute Law Revision Act 1937. Assented to 23.12.1937.
1953	No 4	Oaths (Amendment) Act 1953. Assented to 25.9.1953.
1962	No 5	Oaths (Amendment) Act 1962. Assented to 10.5.1962.
1965	No 33	Decimal Currency Act 1965. Assented to 20.12.1965. Date of commencement of sec 4, 14.2.1966, secs 1 (3), 2 (1) and the Currency Act 1965 (Commonwealth), sec 2 (2).
1970	No 20	Legal Practitioners and Oaths (Amendment) Act 1970. Assented to 31.3.1970.
1973	No 10	Evidence and Oaths (Amendment) Act 1973. Assented to 10.4.1973.
1974	No 62	Legal Practitioners and Other Acts (Amendment) Act 1974. Assented to 10.10.1974. Date of commencement of sec 9, 14.2.1975, sec 2 (2) and GG No 35 of 14.2.1975, p 465.
1978	No 5	Oaths (Amendment) Act 1978. Assented to 20.2.1978.
1984	No 165	Oaths (Commercial Arbitration) Amendment Act 1984. Assented to 14.12.1984. Date of commencement of sec 3, 1.5.1985, sec 2 (2) and GG No 73 of 26.4.1985, p 1797.
1985	No 151	Oaths (Children) Amendment Act 1985. Assented to 28.11.1985. Date of commencement, 23.3.1986, sec 2 (2) and GG No 44 of 14.3.1986, p 1160.
	No 231	Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1985. Assented to 18.12.1985.
1987	No 111	Miscellaneous Acts (Legal Profession) Amendment Act 1987. Assented to 12.6.1987. Date of commencement of Sch 1, 1.1.1988, sec 2 (2) and GG No 199 of 31.12.1987, p 7266.
	No 286	Jury (Amendment) Act 1987. Assented to 16.12.1987. Date of commencement of sec 4 (1), 28 days after assent.
1990	No 51	Crimes (Public Justice) Amendment Act 1990. Assented to 18.9.1990. Date of commencement, 25.11.1990, sec 2 and GG No 141 of 9.11.1990, p 9816.
	No 93	Oaths (Children) Amendment Act 1990. Assented to 7.12.1990. Date of commencement, 6.1.1991, sec 2 and GG No 174 of 21.12.1990, p 11190.
1993	No 47	Statute Law (Penalties) Act 1993. Assented to 15.6.1993. Date of commencement, assent, sec 2.
1995	No 22	Criminal Procedure Amendment (Indictable Offences) Act 1995. Assented to 19.6.1995. Date of commencement of the provision of Sch 2 relating to the Oaths Act 1900, 1.9.1995, sec 2 and GG No 105 of 1.9.1995, p 5044.
	No 27	Evidence (Consequential and Other Provisions) Act 1995. Assented to 19.6.1995. Date of commencement, 1.9.1995, sec 2 and GG No 102 of 25.8.1995, p 4355.
1996	No 83	Oaths Amendment Act 1996. Assented to 6.11.1996. Date of commencement, 1.1.1997, sec 2 and GG No 150 of 20.12.1996, p 8528.
1997	No 147	Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No 2) 1997. Assented to 17.12.1997. Date of commencement of Sch 1.17, assent, sec 2 (2); date of commencement of Sch 3, 3 months after assent, sec 2 (3).
1999	No 31	Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1999. Assented to 7.7.1999. Date of commencement of Sch 4, assent, sec 2 (1).
	No 94	Crimes Legislation Amendment (Sentencing) Act 1999. Assented to 8.12.1999. Date of commencement of Sch 4.43, 3.4.2000, sec 2 (1) and GG No 42 of 31.3.2000, p 2487; date of commencement of Sch 4.140, 1.1.2000, sec 2 (1) and GG No 144 of 24.12.1999, p 12184.
2001	No 121	Justices Legislation Repeal and Amendment Act 2001. Assented to 19.12.2001. Date of commencement of Sch 2, 7.7.2003, sec 2 and GG No 104 of 27.6.2003, p 5978.
2003	No 71	Courts Legislation Amendment Act 2003. Assented to 20.11.2003. Date of commencement, 1.1.2004, sec 2 and GG No 196 of 12.12.2003, p 11172.
2005	No 28	Civil Procedure Act 2005. Assented to 1.6.2005. Date of commencement of Sch 5.36, 15.8.2005, sec 2 (1) and GG No 100 of 10.8.2005, p 4205.
	No 31	Courts Legislation Amendment Act 2005. Assented to 15.6.2005. Date of commencement of Sch 11, assent, sec 2 (1).
	No 64	Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2005. Assented to 1.7.2005. Date of commencement of Sch 2.44, assent, sec 2 (2).
2006	No 6	Constitution Amendment (Pledge of Loyalty) Act 2006. Assented to 3.4.2006. Date of commencement, assent, sec 2.
	No 120	Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No 2) 2006. Assented to 4.12.2006. Date of commencement of Sch 3, assent, sec 2 (2).
2007	No 94	Miscellaneous Acts (Local Court) Amendment Act 2007. Assented to 13.12.2007. Date of commencement of Schs 1.75, 2 and 4, 6.7.2009, sec 2 and 2009 (314) LW 3.7.2009.
2010	No 17	Registrar-General Legislation (Amendment and Repeal) Act 2010. Assented to 18.5.2010. Date of commencement, assent, sec 2.
2011	No 45	Identification Legislation Amendment Act 2011. Assented to 20.9.2011. Date of commencement of Sch 2.6, 30.4.2012, sec 2 and 2011 (691) LW 23.12.2011.
2013	No 80	Crimes and Courts Legislation Amendment Act 2013. Assented to 29.10.2013. Date of commencement, assent, sec 2.
2014	No 14	Courts and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2014. Assented to 20.5.2014. Date of commencement of Sch 4.2, assent, sec 2 (1).
2015	No 2	Courts and Crimes Legislation Amendment Act 2015. Assented to 15.5.2015. Date of commencement, assent, sec 2.
2017	No 44	Justice Legislation Amendment Act (No 2) 2017. Assented to 25.9.2017. Date of commencement of Sch 1.21, assent, sec 2 (1).
2019	No 10	Justice Legislation Amendment Act 2019. Assented to 26.9.2019. Date of commencement of Sch 1.18, assent, sec 2 (1).
	No 14	Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No 2) 2019. Assented to 21.11.2019. Date of commencement of Sch 2.18, 14 days after assent, sec 2(1).
2020	No 24	Stronger Communities Legislation Amendment (Courts and Civil) Act 2020. Assented to 28.9.2020. Date of commencement of Sch 1.11, assent, sec 2(1).
2021	No 33	Electronic Transactions Amendment (Remote Witnessing) Act 2021. Assented to 29.11.2021. Date of commencement, assent, sec 2.
2023	No 7	Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2023. Assented to 3.7.2023. Date of commencement, 14.7.2023, sec 2.

This Act has also been amended pursuant to an order under secs 8 (2) and 9 (3) of the Reprints Act 1972 No 48 (formerly Acts Reprinting Act 1972). Order dated 1.11.1973, and published in GG No 139 of 2.11.1973, p 4712, declaring that the Oaths Act 1900 is an enactment to which sec 8 (2) and sec 9 (3) of the Acts Reprinting Act 1972 apply.

Table of amendments

No reference is made to certain amendments made by the Decimal Currency Act 1965, the Reprints Act 1972, and Schedule 3 (amendments replacing gender-specific language) to the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No 2) 1997.

Part 1, heading	Am 1985 No 231, Sch 31.
Sec 1	Am 1937 No 35, Second Sch. Subst 1985 No 151, Sch 1 (1).
Sec 1A	Ins 1985 No 151, Sch 1 (1).
Sec 2A	Ins 1995 No 22, Sch 2. Am 1996 No 83, Sch 1 (1); 1999 No 94, Sch 4.43; 2001 No 121, Sch 2.160 [1[#93].
Part 2, heading	Am 1985 No 231, Sch 31.
Sec 3	Am 1916 No 5, sec 2; 1973 No 10, sec 3 (a); 1978 No 5, sec 2; 1999 No 31, Sch 4.65 [1[#93]; 2005 No 31, Sch 11; 2007 No 94, Sch 1.75.
Sec 4	Subst 1936 No 12, sec 2 (1) (a).
Sec 5	Am 2006 No 6, Sch 2 [1[#93].
Secs 7, 8	Am 1916 No 5, sec 3.
Sec 9	Am 1916 No 5, sec 3; 1973 No 10, sec 3 (b); 1999 No 31, Sch 4.65 [2[#93].
Sec 10	Am 1916 No 5, sec 3. Rep 2006 No 6, Sch 2 [2[#93].
Sec 11A	Ins 1916 No 5, sec 3.
Part 3, heading	Am 1985 No 231, Sch 31.
Sec 12	Subst 1973 No 10, sec 3 (c). Am 1987 No 286, sec 4 (1) (a).
Sec 13	Am 1995 No 27, Sch 1; 2001 No 121, Sch 2.160 [2[#93].
Sec 14	Rep 1987 No 286, sec 4 (1) (b).
Part 4, heading	Am 1985 No 231, Sch 31.
Sec 18	Am 1900 No 20, sec 18(3); 2021 No 33, Sch 2[1[#93].
Sec 20	Am 1990 No 51, Sch 2; 2001 No 121, Sch 2.160 [3[#93] [4[#93].
Sec 21	Subst 1916 No 5, sec 4. Am 1936 No 12, sec 2 (1) (c); 1970 No 20, sec 3 (a); 2003 No 71, Sch 7 [1[#93]; 2006 No 120, Sch 3.19 [1[#93]; 2010 No 17, Sch 1.2; 2020 No 24, Sch 1.11[1[#93] [2[#93]; 2023 No 7, Sch 2.37[1[#93].
Sec 21A	Ins 1936 No 12, sec 2 (1) (d). Am 1993 No 47, Sch 1; 1999 No 31, Sch 4.65 [3[#93]; 2001 No 121, Sch 2.160 [5[#93]; 2007 No 94, Sch 2.
Sec 24A	Ins 2005 No 28, Sch 5.36 [1[#93]. Am 2013 No 80, Sch 13 [1[#93].
Sec 25	Am 1999 No 94, Sch 4.140 [1[#93].
Sec 25A	Ins 1996 No 83, Sch 1 (2).
Part 5, heading	Am 1985 No 231, Sch 31.
Sec 26	Subst 1916 No 5, sec 5. Am 1953 No 4, sec 2 (a) (b); 1962 No 5, sec 2; 1984 No 165, sec 3; 2005 No 64, Sch 2.44; 2013 No 80, Sch 13 [2[#93]-[4[#93]; 2014 No 14, Sch 4.2; 2015 No 2, Sch 4.5 [1[#93] [2[#93]; 2019 No 14, Sch 2.18; 2021 No 33, Sch 2[2[#93].
Sec 26A	Ins 1916 No 5, sec 5. Am 1953 No 4, sec 2 (c). Rep 1995 No 27, Sch 1. Ins 2015 No 2, Sch 4.5 [3[#93]. Am 2019 No 10, Sch 1.18.
Sec 26B	Ins 1973 No 10, sec 3 (d).
Sec 27	Subst 1970 No 20, sec 3 (b). Am 1973 No 10, sec 3 (e); 1974 No 62, sec 9; 1987 No 111, Sch 1; 1997 No 147, Sch 1.17; 2003 No 71, Sch 7 [2[#93] [3[#93]; 2006 No 120, Sch 3.19 [2[#93]-[4[#93].
Sec 27A	Ins 2005 No 28, Sch 5.36 [2[#93]. Am 2013 No 80, Sch 13 [5[#93].
Sec 28	Am 1973 No 10, sec 3 (f); 2005 No 28, Sch 5.36 [3[#93].
Sec 29	Am 1995 No 27, Sch 1.
Sec 30	Ins 1973 No 10, sec 3 (g). Am 1993 No 47, Sch 1; 1999 No 31, Sch 4.65 [4[#93]; 1999 No 94, Sch 4.140 [2[#93]; 2007 No 94, Sch 4.
Sec 31	Ins 1973 No 10, sec 3 (g). Am 1999 No 94, Sch 4.140 [3[#93].
Sec 32	Ins 1985 No 151, Sch 1 (2). Subst 1995 No 27, Sch 1.
Sec 33	Ins 1985 No 151, Sch 1 (2). Subst 1990 No 93, Sch 1 (1); 1995 No 27, Sch 1.
Part 6	Ins 1985 No 151, Sch 1 (2). Rep 1995 No 27, Sch 1. Ins 2011 No 45, Sch 2.6.
Sec 34	Ins 1985 No 151, Sch 1 (2). Subst 1990 No 93, Sch 1 (1). Rep 1995 No 27, Sch 1. Ins 2011 No 45, Sch 2.6. Am 2013 No 80, Sch 13 [6[#93]; 2023 No 7, Sch 2.37[2[#93].
Sec 34A	Ins 2017 No 44, Sch 1.21.
Sec 35	Ins 1985 No 151, Sch 1 (2). Rep 1995 No 27, Sch 1. Ins 2011 No 45, Sch 2.6.
Fourth Sch	Am 1936 No 12, sec 2 (1) (b).
Fifth Sch	Rep 2006 No 6, Sch 2 [3[#93].
Tenth Sch	Ins 1985 No 151, Sch 1 (3). Subst 1990 No 93, Sch 1 (2). Rep 1995 No 27, Sch 1. Ins 2015 No 2, Sch 4.5 [4[#93].

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