Oath Act, 1873

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SECTIONS:
1. Short title.
Local extent.
2. [Repealed.]
3. Saving of certain oaths and affirmations.
4. Authority to administer oaths and affirmations.
5. Oaths or affirmations to be made by-
witnesses ;
interpreters ;
jurors.
6. Oath by a Muslim or by a non-Muslim who has no objection.
7. Forms of oaths and affirmations.
8. Power of Court to tender certain oaths.
9. Court may ask party or witness whether he will make oath proposed by opposite party.
10. Administration of oath if accepted.
11. Evidence conclusive as against person offering to be bound.
12. Procedure in case of refusal to make oath.
13. Proceedings and evidence not invalidated by omission of oath or irregularity.
14. Persons giving evidence bound to state the truth.
15. [Repealed.]
16. Official oaths abolished.







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