Commissioners for Oaths Act 1891

1891 Chapter 50

An Act to amend the Commissioners for Oaths Act, 1889.

[5th August 1891]

Whereas doubts have been entertained whether the powers to administer oaths and take affidavits conferred on a commissioner for oaths by the [52 & 53 Vict. c. 10.] Commissioners for Oaths Act, 1889, extend to oaths and affidavits required by special provisions to be made before a justice of the peace, or any particular person or officer, and it is expedient to remove such doubts :

Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: