Magistrates' Court General Civil Procedure Rules 2020

If an affidavit is made which requires an interpreter, an accredited interpreter must include in the jurat of the affidavit, or must swear or affirm in a separate affidavit, the matters set out in paragraph (2).

The accredited interpreter must verify that—

before sight translating the affidavit, the interpreter—

had read the code of conduct in Form 44AA and agreed to be bound by it; and

had been given an adequate opportunity to sight translate the affidavit; and

the interpreter sight translated the entire affidavit to the deponent and the deponent then—

informed the person before whom the affidavit is sworn or affirmed through the interpreter that the deponent had understood the interpreter and agreed with the entire contents of the affidavit; and

swore or affirmed the affidavit in the presence of the interpreter.

In this Rule, accredited interpreter has the same meaning as it has in Rule 44A.01.