Oaths and Declarations (Prescribed Persons) Regulations 2001

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 21 Sep 2001

No. S 457

Oaths and Declarations Act 2000

(ACT 38 OF 2000)

Oaths and Declarations
(Prescribed Persons) Regulations 2001

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 17 of the Oaths and Declarations Act 2000, the Minister for Law hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Oaths and Declarations (Prescribed Persons) Regulations 2001 and shall be deemed to have come into operation on 1st January 2001.

Prescribed persons

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

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.

Made this 18th day of September 2001.

LIEW HENG SAN

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Law,
Singapore.

[LAW 06/015/15.1; AG/LEG/SL/211/2001/1 Vol. 1]

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