Where witness and prisoner are foreigners of different languages

(1) When on any criminal trial, a witness and the prisoner are foreigners of different languages, and a foreign interpreter can be found conversant with the languages of the prisoner and the witness, and able to interpret between them, and a second interpreter can be found conversant with the English, and with any language with which the first interpreter is conversant, and able to interpret from the last-named language into English, the first interpreter may be sworn through the second interpreter, in open court, in the following form, or to the like effect, “You swear that you understand the several languages of the witness and the prisoner, and are able to interpret between them. So help you God.” 17 “You shall well and truly interpret and true explanation make, between the witness and the prisoner at the bar, and the prisoner at the bar and the witness, and between them and each of them and the court and jury, and all interpreters, witnesses and persons whatever, to the best of your knowledge, skill and ability, and the evidence you shall give to the court and jury, sworn between our Sovereign Lady the Queen and prisoner at the bar, shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. So help you God.” (2) Whatever be the number of interpreters necessary before the statements of the prisoner and the witness can be interpreted into one and the same language and into English, the same forms of oath shall be administered with any modifications required by the circumstances to each interpreter in the succession, and the like provision shall apply in civil causes as far as may be.