South Australian Consolidated Acts

OATHS ACT 1936

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART 1--Preliminary

   1.      Short title

   PART 2--Promissory oaths and declarations

           Division 1--Oaths

   4.      Interpretation
   5.      Oaths to be taken by the Governor
   6.      Oaths to be taken by members of the Executive Council
   6A.     Oaths to be taken by Ministers who are not members of the Executive Council or by Parliamentary Secretary to a Minister
   7.      Oaths to be taken by judicial officers
   8.      Form of oath of allegiance
   9.      Form of official oath
   10.     Form of oath of fidelity
   11.     Form of judicial oath
   12.     Use of name of Sovereign for the time being

           Division 2--Affirmations

   13.     Affirmation in lieu of oath
   14.     Form of affirmation
   15.     Persons entitled to take affirmations
   16.     Penalty on not taking prescribed oath

           Division 3--Miscellaneous

   17.     Prohibition on use of oath of allegiance
   18.     Substitution of declarations for oaths
   19.     Effect of not making declaration as required by thisPART
   20.     Saving of power to alter declaration
   21.     Saving
   22.     Saving of rights dependent upon taking an oath

   PART 3--Statutory declarations

   23.     Operation of the Imperial Act, 5 and 6 Wm. 4 c. 62
   24.     Part not to apply to oaths in judicial proceedings
   25.     Declaration in lieu of oath
   26.     Fees on taking of oath
   27.     False declaration

   PART 4--Commissioners for taking affidavits

   28.     Commissioners for taking affidavits
   30.     Improperly taking affidavits etc
   31.     Supreme Court to take judicial notice of signatures

   PART 5--Appointment of police officers to take declarations and attest documents

   32.     Interpretation
   33.     Appointment of police officers to take declarations and attest instruments
   34.     Who may take declarations and attest instruments
   35.     Meaning of terms in declarations and instruments
   36.     Act to apply, notwithstanding provisions of any other Act
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