Part II Discipline and Trial and Punishment of Air-Force Offences

Courts-martial: provisions relating to trial

93 Administration of oaths.

(1)

An oath shall be administered to every F1officer appointed a member of a court-martial and to any person, F2. . ., in attendance on a court-martial as F2. . ., officer F3or other person under instruction, F4 or interpreter.

F5(1A)

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F6(1B)

A witness before a court-martial—

(a)

shall be examined on oath if he has attained the age of fourteen; and

(b)

shall give evidence unsworn if he is under that age.

(2)

Unsworn evidence admitted by virtue of subsection (1B)(b) above may corroborate evidence (sworn or unsworn) given by any other person.

F7(2A)

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(3)

An oath required to be administered under this section shall be in the prescribed form and shall be administered at the prescribed time by the prescribed person and in the prescribed manner.