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STATUTORY DECLARATIONS ACT 1835 - SECT 15

Declarations substituted for oaths and affidavits required by 1731 c.7 and 1831 c.15.

15. ... In any action or suit brought or intended to be brought in any court
of law or equity within any of the territories, plantations, colonies, or
dependencies abroad, being within and part of his Majesty's dominions, for or
relating to any debt or account, wherein any person residing in... Ireland
shall be a party, or for or relating to any lands, tenements, or hereditaments
or other property situate, lying, and being in the said places respectively,
it shall and may be lawful to and for the plaintiff or defendant, and also to
and for any witness to be examined or made use of in such action or suit, to
verify or prove any matter or thing relating thereto by solemn declaration or
declarations in writing in the form in the schedule hereunto annexed, made
before any justice of the peace, notary public, or other officer now by law
authorized to administer an oath, and certified and transmitted under the
signature and seal of any such justice, notary public duly admitted and
practising, or other officer; which declaration, and every declaration
relative to such matter or thing as aforesaid, in any foreign kingdom or
state, or to the voyage of any ship or vessel, every such justice of the
peace, notary public, or other officer shall be and he is hereby authorized
and empowered to administer or receive; and every declaration so made,
certified, and transmitted, shall in all such actions and suits be allowed to
be of the same force and effect, as if the person or persons making the same
had appeared and sworn or affirmed the matters contained in such declaration
viva8 voce in open court, or upon a commission issued for the examination of
witnesses or of any party in such action or suit respectively; provided that
in every such declaration there shall be expressed the addition of the party
making such declaration and the particular place of his or her abode.

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