View report page

163
promiscuously at the St. Pancras (M.R.), Kentish Town (M.R.), and King's
Cross (G.N.R.) Stations, and only one sample was found to be slightly
adulterated; whereas, of 14 samples taken by request at the railway stations,,
seven were found to be adulterated.
Bacteriological Examination.—I took fourteen samples of " Nursery " milk
for examination, also four samples were taken direct from the cow into sterilised
bottles. For result-', please refer to Dr. Eyre's Report.
During the year I attended before the magistrates at the different police
courts 47 times in the discharge of my duties.
Harry R. Chit.d,
Inspector of Food and Food Places.
VI.—L EGISLATION.
§ 1.—GENERAL ACTS.
OATHS ACT, 1909.
AN ACT to amend the Law as to Oaths.
Be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice
and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this
present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :
1. Short Title, 51 and 52 Vict., r. 46—This Act maybe cited for ail purposes
as the Oaths Act, 1909, and the Oaths Act, 1888, and this Act may be
cited together as the Oaths Acts, 1888 and 1909.
2. Mannff of Administration of Oaths•—-(1) Any oath may be administered
and taken in the form and manner following :
The person taking the oath shall hold the New Testament, or, in the case
of a Jew, the Old Testament, in his uplifted hand, and shall say or
repeat after the officer administering the oath the words, " I swear by
Almighty God that . . followed by the words of the oath prescribed
by law.
(2) The officer shall (unless the person about to take the oath voluntarily
objects thereto or is physically incapable of so taking the oath) administer
the oath in the form and manner aforesaid without question:
Provided that, in the case of a person who is neither a Christian nor a Jew,
the oath shall be administered in any manner which is now lawful.
3. Definition.—In this Act the word "Officer" shall mean and include any
and every person duly authorised to administer oaths.
4. Commencement and Extent.—(1) This Act shall come into operation on
the first day of January nineteen hundred and ten.
(2) Th's Act sh ill not apply to Scotland.