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

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The same desire to obviate unnecessary

attendances on the Governor underlay also the proposed

We do seem,

amendments to Part II of the Schedule.

however, to have left the lacuna with regard to magis- trates which you point out. I suggest the lacuna

might be filled by inserting in Part II of the Schedule a paragraph providing for the swearing in of magistrates by a Judge. But as that would involve a trip to the Supreme Court for oath taking every time an ex magistrate was told to replace one who was sick or otherwise absent, the very thing we want to avoid, I couple that suggestion with another involving the insertion of the word "first" before "acceptance of office" in section 6 of the principal Ordinance, so that Judges and magistrates will only have to take their appropriate oaths once during

Similarly the word "first" their career in the Colony.

might be inserted also in section 5.

K. O. Roberts-Wray, Esq.,

Colonial Office.

Yours sincerely,

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