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22.12.—(1) Evidence must be given by affidavit(GL) instead of or in addition to a witness statement if this is required by the court, a provision contained in any other rule, a practice direction or any other enactment.
(2) In relation to proceedings which are pending or treated as pending in a divorce county court or civil partnership county court, section 58(1)(c) of the County Courts Act 1984, shall have effect as if after paragraph (c) there were inserted—
“or
(d)a district judge of the principal registry; or
(e)any officer of the principal registry authorised by the President under section 2 of the Commissioner for Oaths Act 1889(1); or
(f)any clerk in the Central Office of the Royal Courts of Justice authorised to take affidavits(GL) for the purposes of proceedings in the Supreme Court.”.
(Rule 7.3 sets out when proceedings are treated as pending in a divorce county court or civil partnership proceedings county court.)
1889 c.10. Section 2 was amended by section 59(5) of and paragraphs 15(1) and (2) of Schedule 11 to the Constitutional Reform Act 2005.
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