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EVIDENCE ACT 2011 - SECT 22

Interpreters and intermediaries to act on oath or affirmation

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

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

    (3)     The person must take the oath, or make the affirmation, in accordance with the appropriate form in schedule 1 or in a similar form.

    (4)     An affirmation has the same effect for all purposes as an oath.

Note     The Commonwealth Act

does not include intermediaries and does not include s (2).



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