Singapore legislation

Section 130

Swearing of affidavits

Subject to general rules, any affidavit may be used in a bankruptcy court if it is sworn —

(a)

in Singapore before any person authorised to administer oaths in the High Court or any Magistrate;

(b)

in Malaysia before a judge, magistrate, justice of the peace or any person authorised to administer oaths under any written law for the time being in force in Malaysia;

(c)

in England before any person authorised to administer oaths in Her Majesty’s High Court of Justice, or in the Court of Chancery of the County Palatine of Lancaster, or before any registrar of a bankruptcy court, or before any officer of a bankruptcy court authorised in writing in that behalf by the judge of the court;

(d)

in Scotland and in Northern Ireland before a judge, ordinary magistrate or justice of the peace; and

(e)

in any other place before a magistrate or justice of the peace or other person qualified to administer oaths in that place who is certified to be a magistrate or justice of the peace or person qualified as aforesaid by a consul or person performing consular functions on behalf of the Government or by a notary public.

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