Oaths Act, 1972 🇬🇭

Ghana 9 Citing Cases

N.R.C.D. 6

Oaths Act, 1972

Published in Government Gazette on 22 January 1972
Assented to on 22 January 1972
Commenced on 22 January 1972
[This is the version of this document from 22 January 1972.]

AN ACT to provide for official oaths and for related matters.

1. Oaths to be taken

The oaths to be taken as required by the Constitution or as occasion may demand are the oaths set out in the Second Schedule to the Constitution and in the First Schedule.

2. Officers to take oaths

The oaths specified in the first column of the Second Schedule shall be taken by a person appointed to an office set out in the second column of that Schedule and shall be administered by the authority specified in the third column of that Schedule.

3. Unnecessary repetition of oath

(1)A person who has duly taken the Oath of Allegiance or the Judicial Oath shall not be required again to take that oath on appointment to any other office or on any other occasion.

(2)A person shall not be required to take an oath on appointment t…

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