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statutory declaration
noun
A legal document that is affirmed rather than being sworn under oath.
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The spokesman said all Nauruan staff "undergo a Nauru police check and sign a statutory declaration.
The blogger Raja Petra signed a "statutory declaration" alleging that Najib's wife had been at the scene of the murder.
A private detective signed a statutory declaration implicating Mr Najib, retracted it the next day, saying it had been made under duress.
However, once Green was sent a dossier detailing Sutton's past, Sutton was forced to sign a statutory declaration promising he was not involved in the purchase.
In 1920, Florence made a formal statutory declaration saying Norman was the eldest son of the eighth baronet and was entitled to succeed to the title.
McDonald told the inquiry that locally contracted staff do not have to undergo a working-with-children check, but said they had "specific behavioural questions" and were required to sign a statutory declaration about any criminal background.
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"As is the case with the proposed Victorian legislation, safeguards would be in place in my bill to ensure statutory declarations are signed by all parties associated with the cases to ensure victims of non-consensual acts are protected," Greenwich said.
Statutory declarations are then posted to the witnesses.
There is only a non-statutory declaration of a "presumption" of coterminosity.
In this context, 'law' and 'medico-legal framework' are not confined to a specific jurisprudential framework but instead incorporate international ethical guidelines and declarations, statutory regulations and departmental guidance [ 7].
The trouble is that, in a section explicitly limiting executive powers, the War Powers Act specifies the president can "introduce United States Armed Forces into hostilities" only under three circumstances: "(1) a declaration of war, (2) specific statutory authorization, or (3) a national emergency created by attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, or its armed forces".
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