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Part 2Oaths and affirmations in judicial proceedings

14Who may administer oaths

  1. All courts and all persons acting judicially are hereby empowered to administer an oath to all such witnesses as are lawfully called or voluntarily come before them respectively or to take the affirmation of any such witness instead of an oath.

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