Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Evidence Act 2008 - SECT 22

Interpreters to act on oath or affirmation

22. Interpreters to act on oath or affirmation



(1) A person must either take an oath, or make an affirmation, before acting
as an interpreter in a proceeding.

(1A) An oath taken, or an affirmation made, by a person before acting as an
interpreter on a day is taken for the purposes of subsection (1) to be an oath
taken or affirmation made by that person for the purposes of any subsequent
proceedings in that court on that day in which the person acts as an
interpreter.

(2) The person is to take the oath, or make the affirmation, in accordance
with the appropriate form in Schedule 1 or in a similar form.

(3) Such an affirmation has the same effect for all purposes as an oath.

Note The Commonwealth Act does not include subsection (1A).