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Section 63: Power to administer oaths and record of substance of statements
- (1) Every registering officer may, at his discretion, administer an oath to any person examined by him under the provisions of this Act.
- (2) Every such officer may also at his discretion record a note of the substance of the statement made by each such person, and such statement shall be read over, or (if made in a language with which such person is not acquainted) interpreted to him in a language with which he is acquainted, and, if he admits the correctness of such note, it shall be signed by the registering officer.
- (3) Every such note so signed shall be admissible for the purpose of proving that the statements therein recorded were made by the persons and under the circumstances therein stated.
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