Supreme Court of Judicature Act (Ireland) 1877

Powers of commissioners to administer oaths.

74. Every person who is or shall be authorised to administer oaths in any of the Courts whose jurisdiction is hereby transferred to the High Court of Justice shall be a commissioner to administer oaths in all causes and matters whatsoever which may from time to time be depending in the said High Court or in the Court of Appeal; and every such commissioner, if a solicitor, is hereby authorised to exercise his functions as such commissioner in any part of Ireland without regard to any limit of place specified in his commission. And all answers disclaimers examinations and affidavits in causes or matters depending in any of the Courts whose jurisdiction is hereby transferred to the High Court of Justice or Court of Appeal, or in the said High Court of Justice or Court of Appeal, and also acknowledgments required for the purpose of enrolling any deed in any of the said Courts, or affidavits to memorials for the purpose of registering deeds in Ireland, shall and may be sworn and taken in England or Scotland, or the Isle of Man, or the Channel Islands, or in any colony island plantation or place under the dominion of Her Majesty in foreign parts, before any judge court notary public or person lawfully authorised to administer oaths in such country colony island plantation or place respectively, or before any of Her Majesty's consuls or vice-consuls in any foreign parts out of Her Majesty's dominions; and the Judges and other officers of the several Divisions of the said High Court or Court of Appeal, and also the Registrar and other officers of the Office for the Registry of Deeds in Ireland shall take judicial notice of the seal or signature, as the case may be, of any such court judge notary public person consul or vice-consul attached, appended, or subscribed to any such answers disclaimers examinations and affidavits acknowledgments memorials or other documents to be used in the said High Court, or in any of the Divisions thereof, or in the Court of Appeal, or in the Office for the Registry of Deeds in Ireland.