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7 Oaths to be taken
[Section 7 Amended by No. 92 of 2001, s. 14, Applied:05 Dec 2001] [Section 7 Amended by No. 65 of 2007, s. 12, Applied:01 Jan 2008] [Section 7 Substituted by No. 8 of 2015, s. 11, Applied:15 May 2015]
(1) A magistrate must not perform or exercise any of the functions, duties or powers of his or her office until he or she has, under section 8(1) of the Promissory Oaths Act 2015 , taken and subscribed the judicial oath.
(2) Subsection (1) only applies to a person appointed as a magistrate after the day on which the Promissory Oaths Act 2015 commences.