Oaths and Declarations (Prescribed Persons) Regulations

Oaths and Declarations Act

(CHAPTER 211, Section 17)

Oaths and Declarations (Prescribed Persons) Regulations

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G.N. No. S 457/2001

REVISED EDITION 2003

(31st January 2003)

[1st January 2001]

Citation

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Oaths and Declarations (Prescribed Persons) Regulations.

Prescribed persons

2.  Every Justice of the Peace appointed under section 11 of the State Courts Act (Cap. 321) shall be a prescribed person for the purposes of section 11 of the Act.

[S 152/2014 wef 07/03/2014]

No prosecutions for certain acts

3.—(1)  Notwithstanding these Regulations, no person shall be tried or punished under section 14 of the Act for an act done before 21st September 2001 which would not, but for these Regulations, be an offence under that section.

(2)  For the avoidance of doubt, a person who attempted, or abetted the doing of, an act referred to in paragraph (1) may, if the attempt or abetment is punishable by law at the time it was done, be tried or punished for the attempt or abetment.

[G.N. No. S 457/2001]