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Appointment of persons to administer oaths for prize proceedings.
27 & 28 Vict. c. 25.
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4. The Lord Chancellor may, whenever it appears to him necessary to do so, authorise any person to administer oaths and take affidavits for any purpose relating to prize proceedings in the Supreme Court, whilst that person is on the high seas or out of Her Majesty’s dominions, and it shall not be necessary to affix any stamp to the document by which he is so authorised.
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Any officer for the time being holding any prescribed office on board any of His Majesty’s ships, or any of His Majesty’s ships of any prescribed class, shall, whilst on the high seas or out of His Majesty’s dominions, by virtue of his office, be empowered to administer oaths and take affidavits for any purpose relating to proceedings in any prize court within the meaning of the Naval Prize Act, 1864, as amended by any subsequent enactment.
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In this section the expression “prescribed” means prescribed in any regulations made by the Admiralty with the consent of the Lord Chancellor, and the expression “His Majesty’s ships” includes any of His Majesty’s vessels of war and any hired ship or vessel in His Majesty’s Service.
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Any document purporting to have subscribed thereto the signature of any person authorised by or under this section to administer an oath, in testimony of any oath or affidavit being administered or taken before him, shall be admitted in evidence without proof of the signature being the signature of that person, or of the official character of that person.]
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[1 Words in brackets added by 7 Edw. 7. c. 25, s. 1.] |
