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Oaths and Declarations Act 2000 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 2 · Oaths
4. Oaths to be taken by witnesses and interpreters
Feedback & support(1)
Without affecting any other written law, oaths must be taken by the following persons:
(a)
a person who may be lawfully examined, or who may give or be required to give evidence, by or before a court or person acting judicially;
(b)
an interpreter of questions put to, and of evidence given by, a person mentioned in paragraph (a).
(2)
Subsection (1) does not apply to —
(a)
the official interpreter of a court; or
(b)
a certificated interpreter in the public service,when performing his or her duties as such interpreter, if he or she has taken an oath to faithfully discharge those duties.