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The Aboriginal Witnesses Act 1848 was a series of South Australian ordinances, acts and amendments that permitted Indigenous South Australians to give unsworn evidence in Court, because at the time it was considered that Indigenous people could not make an oath. The Act existed from 1848 until 1929.
An Act to repeal so much of an Act of the Third and Fourth Years of Her present Majesty, [d] to re-unite the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, and for the Government of Canada, as relates to the Use of the English Language in Instruments relating to the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada.
Evidence Act (with its variations) is a stock short title used for legislation in Australia, India, Malaysia and the United Kingdom relating to evidence. The Bill for an Act with this short title will have been known as a Evidence Bill during its passage through Parliament .
The Indian Evidence Act of the same year, entirely Stephen's own work, made the rules of evidence uniform for all residents of India, regardless of caste, social position, or religion. Besides drafting legislation, at this time Stephen had to attend to the current administrative business of his department, and he took a full share in the ...
An Act to enable Francis Adams Esquire, or other the Committee of the Estate of Mary Shute Adams, a Person of unsound Mind, for and in the Name and on behalf of the said Mary Shute Adams, to consent to the Exercise of certain Powers contained in the Marriage Settlement of the said Francis Adams, and in a certain Act of Parliament passed in the ...
An Act to renew the Term, and continue, amend, and enlarge the Powers, of an Act passed in the Third Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled "An Act for repairing and amending the Roads from Donington High Bridge to Hale Drove, and to the Eighth Milestone in the Parish of Wigtoft, and to Langret Ferry in the County of ...
An Act to continue an Act of the Second and Third Years of Her present Majesty, [k] "to extend and render more effectual for Five Years an Act passed in the Fourth Year of His late Majesty George the Fourth, to amend an Act passed in the Fiftieth Year of His Majesty George the Third, for preventing the administering and taking unlawful Oaths in ...
An Act to extend the Provisions of an Act of the present Session for redeeming or commuting the Annuity payable io the South Sea Company and certain Annuities of Three Pounds per Centum per Annum, and to provide for Payments to be made under the said Act. (Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 69))