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Part 3Promissory oaths and affirmations
General provisions

26Effect of neglecting to take oath

  1. If any officer mentioned in this Act or in Schedule 2 or Schedule 3 declines or neglects, when any oath required to be taken by him under this Act is duly tendered, to take that oath, he shall if he has already entered on his office vacate the same, and if he has not entered on the same be disqualified from entering on the same; but no person shall be compelled in respect of the same appointment to the same office to take any oath more than once.

  2. Where any person who is a Justice of the Peace by virtue of his holding any office and has taken the oath of allegiance and the judicial oath is re-elected to that office at the next succeeding election, it shall not be necessary for him to take those oaths on any such re-election.

Compare
  • 1908 No 151 s 9
  • 1927 No 37 s 7