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Oaths Act

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Arrangement of Sections

1. Oaths to be taken.

2. Officers to take oaths.

3. Unnecessary repetition of oath.

4. Omission or irregularity as to oath, etc.

5. Form and manner in which oath may be taken.

6. Place and date of oath.

7. Absence of religious belief.

8. Affirmations.

9. Persons under age.

10. Authority to administer oaths.

11. Taking oaths out of Nigeria.

12. Power of Nigerian officials abroad.

13. Voluntary declaration.

14. Additional oaths.

15. Effect of oath of allegiance, etc., on persons not citizens of Nigeria.

16. Short title and repeal.

Schedules

Oaths Act 2003

This is an Act to consolidate and amend the law as to oaths and affirmations.

1st day of October 1963

1. The oaths to be taken as occasion shall demand shall be the oaths set out in the First Schedule to this Act.

2. A person appointed to an office set out in the second column of the Second Schedule to this Act shall take the oath specified in the first column of the said Schedule which shall be administered by the authority specified in the third column of the said Schedule.

3. (1)Except in the case of the President, no person who has duly taken the Oath of Allegiance or the Judicial Oath in Nigeria as provided in this Act shall be required again to take that oath on appointment to any other office or on any other occasion.

(2) A person appointed to act in any office or capacity in the place of any officer or person, shall not be required to take any oath on the occasion of such appointment, unless the oath required to be taken in respect of such appointment is different from or in addition to any oath duly taken by him in respect of any other appointment, permanent or temporary.
(3) For the avoidance of doubt and notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1) of this section, a person holding an office or position specified in the second column of the Second Schedule to this Act shall, on or as soon as may be convenient after the first day of October, nineteen hundred and sixty-three, take the oath prescribed for that office in the first column of the said Schedule.

4. (1) Nothing in this Act shall render, or be deemed to render or be deemed to have rendered invalid any act done or which hereafter may be done by a public officer in the execution or intended execution of his official duties, by reason only of the omission by the public officer to take any oath or to make any affirmation which the officer should take or should have taken or should make or should have made:

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