New South Wales Consolidated Acts

SPECIAL COMMISSIONS OF INQUIRY ACT 1983 - SECT 15

15 Oath or affirmation

(1) A Commissioner may administer an oath to any person appearing as a witness at the Special Commission, whether the witness has been summoned or appears without being summoned, and may examine the witness upon oath.

(2) Where any witness to be examined before a Special Commission conscientiously objects to take an oath, the witness may make an affirmation that he or she conscientiously objects to take an oath, and that he or she will state the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, to all questions that may be put to him or her.

(3) An affirmation so made shall be of the same force and effect, and shall entail the same liabilities, as an oath.