Western Australian Current Acts

FAMILY COURT ACT 1997 - SECT 214B

214B .         Oaths and affirmations

        (1)         The executive manager may, in writing, authorise —

            (a)         a registrar; or

            (b)         a member of the staff of the Court or the Magistrates Court,

                to administer oaths and affirmations for the purposes of the Court and the Magistrates Court.

        (2)         The following persons are authorised to administer oaths and affirmations for the purposes of the Court or the Magistrates Court —

            (a)         a person who is authorised to administer oaths and affirmations in that court under the Oaths, Affidavits and Statutory Declarations Act 2005 ;

            (b)         a person authorised under subsection (1).

        (3)         This section does not limit the Oaths, Affidavits and Statutory Declarations Act 2005 .

        (4)         This section applies to the Magistrates Court exercising —

            (a)         its federal jurisdiction under section 38; or

            (b)         its non-federal jurisdictions under section 39; or

            (c)         any other jurisdiction under a law of the Commonwealth, where that law confers jurisdiction on both the Court and the Magistrates Court.

        [Section 214B inserted: No. 13 of 2013 s. 33.]