44.—The Minister may from time to time make regulations in relation to both or either of the following matters, that is to say:—
(a) requiring any claim for payment of any moneys alleged to be due by him or a committee of agriculture to be verified by statutory declaration;
(b) requiring any application made to him under any enactment and not required by or under such enactment to be verified in a particular manner to be verified by statutory declaration;
and whenever any such regulations are made in relation to any such claim or application, such claim or application shall not be entertained unless and until it is verified by statutory declaration.
