Commissioners for Oaths (Prize Proceedings) Act 1907

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1907 c. 25
Year1907


Commissioners for Oaths (Prize Proceedings) Act, 1907

(7 Edw. 7.) CHAPTER 25.

An Act for amending the Law relating to the Administration of Oaths for the purpose of Proceedings in Prize Courts.

[28th August 1907]

Be it enacted by the King'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:

S-1 Power of officers to administer oaths in prize proceeding.

1 Power of officers to administer oaths in prize proceeding.

1. There shall be added to section four of the Commissioners for Oaths Act, 1889(which relates to the appointment of persons to administer oaths in prize proceedings), the following provisions:—

‘Any officer for the time being holding any prescribed office on board any of His Majesty's ships, or any of His Majesty's ships of any prescribed class, shall, whilst on the high seas or out of His Majesty's dominions, by virtue of his office, be empowered to administer oaths and take affidavits for any purpose relating to proceedings in any prize court within the meaning of the Naval Prize Act, 1864, as amended by any subsequent enactment.

In this section the expression 'prescribed' means prescribed in any regulations made by the Admiralty with the consent of the Lord Chancellor, and the expression 'His Majesty's ships' includes any of His Majesty's vessels of war and any hired ship or vessel in His Majesty's service.

Any document purporting to have subscribed thereto the signature of any person authorised by or under this section to administer an oath, in testimony of any oath or affidavit being administered or taken before him, shall be admitted in evidence without proof of the signature being the signature of that person, or of the official character of that person.’

S-2 Short title.

2 Short title.

2. This Act may be cited as the Commissioners for Oaths (Prize Proceedings) Act, 1907, and the Commissioners for Oaths Acts, 1889 and 1891, and the...

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