Clause 59

An oath in the prescribed form shall be administered by the prescribed person to every member of every court-martial before the commencement of the trial.

An oath in the prescribed form or forms shall be administered by the prescribed person to the judge advocate or person officiating as judge advocate (if any), and also to every officer in attendance on a court-martial for the purpose of instruction (if any), and also to every shorthand writer or interpreter (if any) in attendance on the court-martial.

Every witness before a court-martial shall be examined on oath, which the president or other prescribed person shall administer in the prescribed form.

If a person by this Act required either as a member of, or person in attendance on, or witness before a court-martial, or otherwise, in respect of a court-martial, to take an oath, objects to take an oath, or is objected to as incompetent to take an oath, the court, if satisfied of the sincerity of the objection, or where the competence of the person to take an oath is objected to, of the oath having no binding effect on the conscience of such person, shall permit such person instead of being sworn to make a solemn declaration in the prescribed form, and for the purposes of this Act such solemn declaration shall be deemed to be an oath.