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Alternative form and manner for oath

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Part 6Miscellaneous

21 Alternative form and manner for oath

(1)

Subject to sections 6A and 15 but notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, where a person who is required or permitted to take an oath states, in the presence of the person before whom the oath is to be taken, that an oath taken in a form and manner other than the form and manner specified in this Act would be binding on him or her, the oath may be taken in that form and manner.

(2)

It is not necessary that a religious text be used in taking an oath.

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