CO129-581-15 Promissory Oaths Amendment Ordinance 1939 17-4-1939 - 24-11-1939 — Page 25

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but as J.Ps

of the Board of Education, the Minister of Labour, the

Minister of Health, the Minister of Pensions, and the

Minister of Transport.

11. While Part I in the proposed new Schedule does

not seek to find local equivalents of that formidable list

it is considered desirable that it should include all

official members of the Executive Council.

12.

Part II of the Schedule to the principal Ordinance

deals with the persons required to take the oath of

allegiance and the judicial oath. The new Part II differs

from the old Part II only in the omission of the second

paragraph which required certain officials, all of whom

are official Justices of the Peace, and the refore included

in the third paragraph, to take their oaths before the

This is considered unnecessary especially as

Governor.

no corresponding official is included in the Second Part

of the Promissory Oaths Act, 1868.

13.

As all members of the Executive Council are

required under section 7 of the principal Ordinance to take the oath of allegiance and as all the officers included

in Part I of the Schedule will be members of that Council

the words "oath of allegiance and the" are not necessary

in the first line of section 5 of the principal Ordinance.

They are therefore repealed by clause 2 of the Bill.

(sd.) C. G. Alabaster.

April, 1939.

Attorney General.