Oaths

Cap. 130 · Revised Edition 2020 · 48 sections

s. 1Short title
s. 2Oath of allegiance and office
s. 3Oath of member of National Assembly
s. 4Oath of Clerk to National Assembly
s. 5When oath of allegiance and office to be taken
s. 6Present form substituted for others
s. 7Other persons exempted
s. 8Declining or neglecting to take oath
s. 9Miscellaneous provisions
s. 10Solemn affirmation
s. 11Substitution of declarations for oaths
s. 12Who may administer oaths, declarations, etc., in certain cases
s. 13Penalties for declining, etc., to make declaration
s. 14Saving clauses
s. 15Where oath formerly a condition precedent or subsequent
s. 16Abolition of extra-judicial oaths
s. 17Statutory declaration
s. 18Form of statutory declaration
s. 19Fees payable on declaration
s. 20False declaration
s. 21When affirmation may be made instead of oath
s. 22Religious books not available
s. 23Form of affirmation
s. 24Validity of oath not affected by absence of religious belief
s. 25Form of affirmation in writing
s. 26Oaths of jurors. Civil causes
s. 27Criminal cases
s. 28Oaths of witnesses. Civil causes
s. 29Voire dire
s. 30Witnesses in criminal cases
s. 31Oaths of interpreters in civil causes
s. 32Oath for interpreters on voire dire
s. 33Interpreters’ oath upon an arraignment
s. 34Oaths of interpreters in criminal cases
s. 35Where witness and prisoner are foreigners of different languages
s. 36In cases of difficulty, judge to declare how interpreter shall be sworn
s. 37Incompetency in criminal cases
s. 38Scotch form of oath
s. 39How administered
s. 40Words of oath
s. 41What oaths shall bind
s. 42Interpretation
s. 43Commissioner of court may administer oaths in any place
s. 44Oaths may be taken before any person having authority to administer oaths in any place
s. 45Place and date where and when oath taken to be stated in jurat
s. 46Belize diplomats, etc., may administer oaths in foreign places
s. 47Notaries public outside Belize may administer oaths, etc
s. 48Documents duly sealed to be admitted in evidence without further proof