LawgistThe Oaths Act
1Short title and extent
(1) This Act may be called the Oaths Act, 1969.
((2) It extends to the whole of India 1 ***.
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1. The words "except the State of Jammu and Kashmir" omitted by Act 34 of 2019, s. 95 and the Fifth Schedule (w.e.f. 31-10-2019).
All sections
- 1 Short title and extent
- 2 Saving of certain oaths and affirmations
- 3 Power to administer oaths
- 4 Oaths or affirmations to be made by witnesses, interpreter and jurors
- 5 Affirmation by persons desiring to affirm
- 6 Forms of oaths and affirmations
- 7 Proceedings and evidence not invalidated by omission of oath or irregularity
- 8 Persons giving evidence bound to state the truth
- 9 Repeal and saving
