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Statutory Declarations Act, 1835

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Statutory Declarations Act, 1835 (English) (5 & 6 Wm. 4, c. 62), which substitutes declarations for oaths in a large number of cases.

The expression 'statutory declaration' in a statute means declaration under the above Act, Interpretation Act, 1889, s. 21.

As to the punishment if a person 'knowingly and wilfully makes a statement false in a material particular' in a statutory declaration see (English) Perjury Act, 1911, s. 5.

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