328 Promissory Oaths

• Author: Ralph Hone
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CHAPTER 328.

PROMISSORY OATHS.

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.

SECTION.

1. SHORT TITLE.

2. FORM OF OATHS.

3. TENDERING OF OATHS TO GOVERNOR.

4. BY WHOM THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE AND OFFICIAL OATH SHALL BE TAKEN.

5. BY WHOM THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE AND JUDICIAL OATH SHALL BE TAKEN.

6. OATHS BY THE SECRETARY TO THE CABINET AND CERTAIN ASSISTANT SECRETARIES.

7. AMENDMENT OF SCHEDULES AND SAVING.

8. AFFIRMATION IN LIEU OF OATH.

9. NAME OF SOVEREIGN.

10. NEGLECT OR REFUSAL TO TAKE OATHS.

11. OATHS NOT AFFECTED BY THIS ACT.

SCHEDULES.

FIRST SCHEDULE-OFFICERS WHO ARE TO TAKE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE AND OFFICIAL OATH.

SECOND SCHEDULE-OFFICERS WHO ARE TO TAKE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE AND JUDICIAL OATH.

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CHAPTER 328.

PROMISSORY OATHS.

AN ACT RELATING TO PROMISSORY OATHS.

[29th December 1964.1

1. This Act may be cited as The Promissory Oaths Act.

2.-(1) The oaths in this Act referred to respectively 'as the Oath of Allegiance and the Judicial Oath shall be in the forms prescribed by the Schedule to the Constitution.

(2) The oath in this Act referred to as the Official Oath shall be in the following form: 'I, A. B., do swear that I will well and truly serve Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second in the office of So help me God.' 3. The Oaths required by the Constitution to be taken by the Governor and an Acting Governor shall be tendered by the Chief Justice or, in his absence, by a Judge of the Supreme Court in the presence of such Ministers, Senators, Members of the House of Assembly, Chief Officials and principal inhabitants as can...