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CONSTITUTION ACT 1975 - SECT 23 Oath of allegiance

CONSTITUTION ACT 1975 - SECT 23

Oath of allegiance

    (1)     No member either of the Council or the Assembly shall be permitted to sit or vote therein respectively until he has taken and subscribed before the Governor or some person authorized by the Governor in that behalf the oath or affirmation in the Second Schedule.

    (2)     Whenever the demise of the Crown is notified by the Governor to the Council and the Assembly, the members of the Council and of the Assembly shall before they are permitted to sit or vote therein respectively take and subscribe the like oath or affirmation to the successor for the time being to the Crown.

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