Section 7

Proceedings and evidence not invalidated by omission of oath or irregularity.

The Oaths Act, 1969

  • Act 44 of 1969
  • Ministry of Law and Justice
  • Legislative Department
About this Act

An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to judicial oaths and for certain other purposes.

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    No omission to take any oath or make any affirmation, no substitution of any one for any other of them, and no irregularity whatever in the administration of any oath or affirmation or in the form in which it is administered, shall invalidate any proceeding or render inadmissible any evidence whatever, in or in respect of which such omission, substitution or irregularity took place, or shall affect the obligation of a witness to state the truth.

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