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A Compendium of Official Documents Relative to Native Affairs in the South Island. Volume Two.

Unsworn Testimony Ordinance. — In the Eighth Year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria

Unsworn Testimony Ordinance.
In the Eighth Year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria.

Session III, No. XVI.
[Confirmation notified in Government Gazette, 21st January, 1846.]

"An Ordinance for the Admission in certain cases of Unsworn Testimony, in Civil and Criminal Proceedings."

[Passed the 16th day of July, 1844.]

Analysis.

Title.
Preamble, reciting 6 Victoria, chapter 22.
1.Certain persons may give evidence on Affirmation.
2.Who to be deemed of the Aboriginal Race.
3.Persons giving false evidence to be deemed guilty of a misdemeanour.