Cap. 220 ст. 177Power of certain officers to take affidavits and declarations.

(1) An officer of the regular forces of a rank not below that of major (hereinafter referred to as an "authorised officer")

may, at any place outside Malta, take affidavits and declarations from any person subject to military law and from any such other person as the Minister may by order specify.

(2) A document purporting to have subscribed thereto the signature of an authorised officer in testimony of an affidavit or declaration being taken before him in pursuance of this article and containing in the jurat or attestation a statement of the date on which and the place at which the affidavit or declaration was taken and the full name and rank of that officer shall be admitted in evidence without proof of the signature being the signature of that officer or of the facts so stated.