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C-68 - Coroners Act

Section 5
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5. Every coroner or deputy coroner, and every person authorized to make an investigation or hold an inquest under section 4, shall, before assuming his functions, take the oaths of allegiance and of office according to the schedule to this act.
Such oaths shall be taken before a judge, a magistrate, a commissioner per dedimus potestatem, a prothonotary of the Superior Court, a clerk of the Provincial Court, a clerk of the Crown, a clerk of the peace or a notary; deputy coroners may also take such oaths before the coroner to whom they are appointed.
A certificate of the taking of such oaths shall be transmitted to the clerk of the peace of the judicial district for which the person who took them has been appointed.
1966-67, c. 19, s. 5.
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