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Public Offices (Candidacy and Taking Up Offices) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Ordinance 2021 Part 3 Section 10 :::(i) the oath-taking procedure of any person during the ceremony; and
 * (ii) if section 5 of the National Anthem Ordinance (2 of 2020) requires the national anthem to be played and sung on the occasion of the ceremony, the playing and singing of the national anthem as required under that Ordinance; and
 * (b) a reference to the oath-taking procedure of a person includes the taking of the oath by the person.
 * (4) Subsection (2) does not limit the operation of section 21.”.

10. Section 21 amended (consequence of non-compliance)

(1) Section 21, heading—
 * Repeal
 * “non-compliance”
 * Substitute
 * “declining or neglecting to take oath”.

(2) Section 21—
 * Renumber the section as section 21(1).

(3) After section 21(1)—
 * Add
 * “(2) No person may arrange for the person who declines or neglects to take the oath to retake it.
 * (3) However, subsections (1) and (2) do not apply if—
 * (a) a person declined or neglected to take the oath before a person who is authorized by this Part to administer it (oath administrator); and