Queensland Consolidated Acts

OATHS ACT 1867

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

           Contents

           Part 1--Preliminary

   1A.     Short title
   1B.     Definitions

           Part 2--Oaths of office and allegiance

   1.      Oath substituted for the oaths and declaration now prescribed by law
   2.      Before whom the oath may be taken
   3.      Oaths for justices of the peace and others
   4.      Name of the Sovereign
   5.      Affirmation in lieu of oath
   5A.     Form of oath of allegiance

           Part 3--Declarations substituted for certain official oaths

   6.      Declarations substituted for oaths and affirmations
   7.      Act not to extend to oath of allegiance
   8.      Nor to oaths in judicial proceeding
   9.      Such substitution to be notified in gazette
   10.     Oaths or affirmations not to be made or taken thereafter

           Part 4--Statutory declarations

   13.     Who may take declarations
   14.     Form of declaration
   15.     Fees payable

           Part 5--Solemn affirmations and declarations

   17.     Affirmation instead of oath in certain cases
   18.     Quakers and Moravians permitted to make a solemn affirmation or declaration instead of oath
   19.     Separatists instead of an oath may make the following affirmation

           Part 6--Other oaths

   21.     Swearing of jurors in civil trials
   22.     Swearing of jurors in criminal trials
   23.     Witnesses' oath in civil causes
   23A.    Witnesses' oath in proceedings not otherwise specified
   24.     Voire dire
   25.     Witnesses' oath on criminal trials
   26.     Interpreters' oath in civil causes
   27.     Interpreters' oath in civil causes on the voire dire
   28.     Interpreters' oath for the arraignment—to interpret between prisoner and others
   29.     Interpreter's oath to interpret between a prisoner, defendant or witness and others
   30.     Where witness and prisoner are of different languages—first interpreter's oaths
   31.     Oath of bailiff in charge of jury
   31A.    Oath of police officer assisting bailiff in charge of jury

           Part 7--Miscellaneous

   32.     General provision
   33.     Special provision as to oaths
   35.     Mode of binding interpreters to interpreting certain cases
   36.     Interruption of trial by reason of failure of interpreters not to entitle to acquittal
   37.     Mode of taking evidence of persons objecting or incompetent to take an oath
   38.     Interpreters
   39.     Mode of taking evidence of witness who can not be sworn in manner required by witness's religion—schedule
   40.     Interpreter
   41.     Who may take affidavits
   42.     Mode of pleading affirmation instead of oath
   43.     References to Oaths Act Amendment Acts
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           Endnotes