Rule 148 Affidavits and declarations

For the purposes of these Rules an affidavit may be sworn, or a statutory declaration may be made, before a lay magistrate or before a commissioner for oaths or clerk of petty sessions.

Without prejudice to paragraph (1), any such affidavit of service as is referred to in Article 126(1) of the Order may be sworn before the clerk of petty sessions.

A fee paid to a commissioner for oaths on the swearing of an affidavit or the making of a statutory declaration shall not be recoverable by the person paying the fee from the other party.