[Rev. 2012]
Penal Code
CAP. 63
Any person who administers an oath, or engagement in the nature of an oath,
purporting to bind the person who takes it to commit any offence, punishable with
death, is guilty of a felony and shall be sentenced to death.
[Act No. 52 of 1955, s. 5.]
61. Unlawful oaths to commit other offences
Any person who—
(a) administers, or is present at and consents to the administering of, any
oath or engagement in the nature of an oath, purporting to bind the
person who takes it to act in any of the ways following, that is to say—
(i) to engage in any mutinous or seditious enterprise;
(ii) to commit any offence not punishable with death;
(iii) to disturb the public peace;
(iv) to be of any association, society or confederacy, formed for the
purpose of doing any such act as aforesaid;
(v) to obey the orders or commands of any committee or body of
men not lawfully constituted, or of any leader or commander or
other person not having authority by law for that purpose;
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