32Employment of, objections to, and swearing of recorders and interpreters

32 Employment of, objections to, and swearing of recorders and interpreters

(1) An appropriate authority may arrange for a person to act as a recorder or as an interpreter at proceedings before a court martial or Defence Force magistrate. (2) The accused person may enter an objection to a recorder or interpreter on the ground of partiality or incompetence, or both. (3) Where the judge advocate or Defence Force magistrate is satisfied that the accused person has substantiated an objection entered by that person under this rule, the judge advocate or Defence Force magistrate, as the case may be, shall allow the objection. (4) Before a person begins to act as a recorder or an interpreter, the judge advocate or Defence Force magistrate shall administer, or cause to be administered, an oath or affirmation to the person before the person begins so to act. (5) The oath or affirmation to be taken or made by a person for the purposes of this rule is an oath or affirmation: (a) in the case of a person who is to act as a recorder—that the person will, to the best of the person’s ability, truly record or transcribe (or both, as the case may be) the evidence to be given before the court martial or Defence Force magistrate and such other matters as may be required and (where a transcript is required to be made) will deliver to the judge advocate or Defence Force magistrate a true transcript of the same; or (b) in the case of a person who is to act as an interpreter—that the person will, to the best of the person’s ability, truly interpret and translate as the person will be required to do.