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| "act_title": "The Diplomatic and Consular Officers (Oaths and Fees) Act, 1948", | |
| "act_no": "XXI", | |
| "act_year": "1948", | |
| "publication_date": "19/07/2025", | |
| "sections": [ | |
| { | |
| "section_content": "1. (1) This Act may be called theDiplomatic and Consular Officers (Oaths and Fees) Act, 1948.(2) It shall come into force at once, and shall be deemed to have taken effect from the fifteenth day of August, 1947." | |
| }, | |
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| "section_content": "2. In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,-(a) “consular officer” includes consul, consular agent, consul-general, honorary consul, pro-consul and vice-consul; and(b) “diplomatic officer” includes ambassador, agent, agent-general, assistant high commissioner, attache of a diplomatic mission, charge d affaires, commissioner, counsellor, deputy high commissioner, diplomatic secretary, high commissioner and minister." | |
| }, | |
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| "section_content": "3. (1) Every diplomatic or consular officer of Bangladesh exercising his functions in any foreign country or place, or any such diplomatic or consular officer of a foreign country as is in writing authorised in this behalf by the Government in relation to any foreign country or place, may in that country or place administer any oath or affirmation and take any affidavit and also do any notarial act which any notary public may do within the territories of Bangladesh, and every such oath, affirmation, affidavit and notarial act administered, sworn or done by or before any such person shall be as effectual as if duly administered, sworn or done by or before any lawful authority in any part of Bangladesh.(2) Any document purporting to have affixed, impressed, or subscribed thereon or thereto the seal and signature of any person authorised by this section to administer an oath in testimony of any oath, affirmation, affidavit, or act being administered, sworn or done by or before him, shall be admitted in evidence without proof of the seal or signature being the seal or signature of that person, or of the official character of that person." | |
| }, | |
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| "section_content": "4. (1) The Government shall have power to fix tables of fees to be charged in respect of any act done in the execution of his office by a consular officer or by a diplomatic officer entrusted with consular duties, and to make regulations in accordance with which fees shall be levied, accounted for and applied or may be remitted.(2) Tables of any fees so fixed and any regulations so made shall be published in the official Gazette." | |
| }, | |
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| "section_content": "5. (1) Tables of the fees mentioned in the preceding section shall be exhibited prominently at every customs port, land customs station and customs aerodrome.(2) Every consular officer and diplomatic officer entrusted with consular functions shall exhibit the aforesaid tables of fees in his office prominently and shall permit them to be inspected by any person wishing to do so." | |
| }, | |
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| "section_content": "6. No consular officer or diplomatic officer entrusted with consular duties shall, save as may be provided in the aforesaid regulations, ask for or take any fee or reward for any act done in the execution of his office, and if he does so he shall, without prejudice to any other liability, be punishable for every such offence with fine which may extend to Tk. 3,000." | |
| }, | |
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| "section_content": "7. (1) Whoever swears falsely in any oath or affidavit taken or made in accordance with the provisions of this Act shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years and shall also be liable to fine.(2) Whoever forges or fraudulently alters the seal or signature of any person authorised by or under this Act to administer an oath or tenders in evidence, or otherwise uses, any affidavit having any seal or signature so forged or counterfeited or fraudulently altered knowing the same to be forged, counterfeited or fraudulently altered, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years and shall also be liable to fine." | |
| }, | |
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| "section_content": "2[8. No Court shall take cognizance of an offence under this Act with which any consular officer or diplomatic officer is charged except upon complaint in writing made by a person authorised in this behalf by general or special order of the Government.]" | |
| } | |
| ], | |
| "footnotes": [ | |
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| "footnote_text": "1Throughout this Act, the words “Bangladesh”, “Government” and “Tk.” were substituted for the words “Pakistan”, “Central Government” and “Rs.” respectively by section 3 and the Second Schedule of theBangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973(Act No. VIII of 1973)" | |
| }, | |
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| "footnote_text": "2Section 8 was substituted by section 3 and the second schedule of theBangladesh Laws (Revision And Declaration) Act, 1973(Act No. VIII of 1973)" | |
| } | |
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| "copyright_text": "Copyright©2019, Legislative and Parliamentary Affairs DivisionMinistry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs" | |
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