CO129-581-15 Promissory Oaths Amendment Ordinance 1939 17-4-1939 - 24-11-1939 — Page 15

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3.

provide for the swearing in of magistrates

by a Judge. I would also suggest that in

order that Judges and magistrates should have

to take the appropriate oaths once only during

their careers in the Colony, the word "first"

should be inserted before "acceptance of

office" in Section 6 of the Principal Ordinance.

Similarly, the word "first" might be inserted

also before "acceptance of office" in Section 5.

Subject to considerations being given to the

foregoing suggestions, I approve of the draft

the

Bill being introduced into/Legislative Council.

I have, etc.

~LM MADONALD