Victorian Numbered Acts

OATHS AND AFFIRMATIONS ACT 2018 (NO. 6 OF 2018) - SECT 1

The purposes of this Act are—

        (a)     to re-enact and modernise the law relating to oaths, affirmations, affidavits and statutory declarations; and

        (b)     to establish a scheme for the certification of copies of documents; and

        (c)     to repeal Divisions 1 to 11 of Part IV, Part V and other provisions of the Evidence (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1958 ; and

        (d)     to make consequential amendments to the  Evidence Act 2008 , the Constitution Act 1975 , the Interpretation of Legislation Act 1984 and other Acts.