PUBLIC ASSISTANCE (OATHS) REGULATIONS (oaths)

PUBLIC ASSISTANCE (OATHS)

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 318.02

PUBLIC ASSISTANCE (OATHS) REGULATIONS

24th February, 1953

GOVERNMENT NOTICE 109 of 1953, as amended by Act XLIV of 1965.

The title of these regulations is the Public Assistance

(Oaths) Regulations.

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires -

"the Act" means the Social Security Act;

"officer administering the oath" means the Director of Social

Services and any other officer in his Department authorised by the

Minister to administer oaths for the purpose of the proper

performance of his functions under and in accordance with the

provisions of the Act.

The officer administering the oath shall comply with the

following formalities

(a) any oral statement shall, before it is sworn to, be

written out and then signed or marked by the deponent;

(b) it shall be the duty of the officer administering the oath

to satisfy himself of the identity of the person taking

the oath and to explain to such person the contents of

such statement;

(c) the officer administering the oath shall pay due regard

to the solemnity of the act he is performing and shall

impress on the deponent the consequences of false

swearing;

(d) the officer administering the oath shall state in the

attestation the place where and the date in which the

oath is taken and that he is satisfied that the deponent

fully understood the contents of the statement.