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                                              STATUTORY DECLARATIONS ACT, 1971 
                                              (ACT 389)</span></b></p>
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                                              ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS</span></p>
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                                              Section</span></p>
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                                              1. Restriction on use of 
                                              Affidavits.</span></p>
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                                              2. Use of Statutory Declarations.</span></p>
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                                              3. Form of Statutory Declaration.</span></p>
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                                              4. Procedure for making Statutory 
                                              Declaration.</span></p>
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                                              5. Offence.</span></p>
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                                              6. Fees.</span></p>
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                                              7. Repeals.</span></p>
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                                              THE THREE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-NINTH</span></p>
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                                              ACT OF THE PARLIAMENT OF THE 
                                              REPUBLIC OF GHANA</span></p>
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                                              ENTITLED</span></p>
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                                              THE STATUTORY DECLARATIONS ACT, 
                                              1971</span></b></p>
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                                              AN ACT to provide for the making 
                                              of statutory declarations.</span></p>
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                                              DATE OF ASSENT:&nbsp; 1st December, 
                                              1971.</span></p>
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                                              BE IT ENACTED by the President and 
                                              the National Assembly in this 
                                              present Parliament assembled as 
                                              follows:&#8212;</span></p>
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                                              Section 1&#8212;Restriction on use of 
                                              Affidavits.</span></b></p>
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                                              After the commencement of this 
                                              Act, no affidavit shall be sworn 
                                              for any purpose, except&#8212;</span></p>
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                                              (a) where it relates to any 
                                              proceeding, application or other 
                                              matter commenced in any court or 
                                              referable thereto; or</span></p>
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                                              (b) where under the provisions of 
                                              any enactment an affidavit is 
                                              authorised to be sworn.</span></p>
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                                              Section 2&#8212;Use of Statutory 
                                              Declarations.</span></b></p>
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                                              In every case to which section 1 
                                              does not apply, a person wishing 
                                              to depose to any fact for any 
                                              purpose may do so by means of a 
                                              statutory declaration:</span></p>
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                                              Provided that where any person has 
                                              sworn to an affidavit for any 
                                              purpose other than a purpose 
                                              referred to in section 1, such 
                                              affidavit shall nevertheless be 
                                              deemed for all purposes to be a 
                                              statutory declaration.</span></p>
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                                              Section 3&#8212;Form of Statutory 
                                              Declaration.</span></b></p>
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                                              <span style="font-family: Arial">A 
                                              statutory declaration shall be 
                                              made in the following form:&#8212;</span></p>
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                                              &quot;I, 
                                              ............................................................................................................................................................................,</span></p>
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                                              (full names and address)</span></p>
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                                              solemnly and sincerely declare 
                                              that 
                                              ...........................................................................................................................</span></p>
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                                              ................................................................................................................................................</span></p>
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                                              and I make this solemn declaration 
                                              conscientiously believing it to be 
                                              true, in accordance with the 
                                              Statutory Declarations Act, 1971.&quot;</span></p>
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                                              Section 4&#8212;Procedure for making 
                                              Statutory Declaration.</span></b></p>
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                                              Every magistrate, notary public, 
                                              commissioner for oaths and any 
                                              other person authorised by law to 
                                              administer an oath may take and 
                                              receive the statutory declaration 
                                              of any person voluntarily making 
                                              it before him, and shall certify 
                                              it under his signature.</span></p>
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                                              Section 5&#8212;Offence.</span></b></p>
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                                              Any person who makes a statutory 
                                              declaration which he knows to be 
                                              false in a material particular, or 
                                              who makes a declaration false in a 
                                              material particular, reckless 
                                              whether it be true or not, shall 
                                              be guilty of a misdemeanour.</span></p>
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                                              Section 6&#8212;Fees.</span></b></p>
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                                              The fees payable on the taking of 
                                              an affidavit shall likewise be 
                                              payable on the making of a 
                                              statutory declaration.</span></p>
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                                              Section 7&#8212;Repeals.</span></b></p>
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                                              (1) The Statutory Declarations 
                                              Act, 1835 (5 &amp; 6 Will. IV, c. 62) 
                                              shall cease to apply in Ghana, and 
                                              accordingly the reference to that 
                                              Act in the First Schedule to the 
                                              Courts Act, 1971 is hereby 
                                              repealed.</span></p>
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                                              (2) Section 11 (2) of the Oaths 
                                              Act, 1960 (C.A. 12) is hereby 
                                              repealed.</span></p>
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