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Magistrates Act 1991
sec.53FOath or affirmation
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### sec.53F Oath or affirmation
A person appointed under section 53 or 53A must not exercise any powers, or perform any functions, of a judicial registrar unless the person has taken the oath, or made the affirmation, prescribed under the regulation for this section.
The oath or the affirmation may be taken or made before, and may be administered and received by, a magistrate.
A person who does not, within 3 months after appointment as a judicial registrar, take the oath or make the affirmation ceases to hold office as a judicial registrar when the period ends.
A judicial registrar is not required to take an oath or make an affirmation prescribed under any other Act in relation to justices or magistrates.
s 53F ins 2007 No. 37 s 116
(sec.53F-ssec.1) A person appointed under section 53 or 53A must not exercise any powers, or perform any functions, of a judicial registrar unless the person has taken the oath, or made the affirmation, prescribed under the regulation for this section.
(sec.53F-ssec.2) The oath or the affirmation may be taken or made before, and may be administered and received by, a magistrate.
(sec.53F-ssec.3) A person who does not, within 3 months after appointment as a judicial registrar, take the oath or make the affirmation ceases to hold office as a judicial registrar when the period ends.
(sec.53F-ssec.4) A judicial registrar is not required to take an oath or make an affirmation prescribed under any other Act in relation to justices or magistrates.