11.08 (1) Before being examined, the witness shall take an oath or make an affirmation or, if the conditions of subsection 16(3) of the Canada Evidence Act have been met, make a promise to tell the truth, and if the examination is conducted in Newfoundland and Labrador, the oath or affirmation shall be administered by the commissioner or by another person authorized to administer oaths in Newfoundland and Labrador, or if the conditions of subsection 16(3) of the Canada Evidence Act have been met, the promise to tell the truth shall be made to that person.

Where the certificate is not issued in the country concerned the economic operator may provide a sworn statement made before a judicial authority or notary or, failing that, a solemn statement made before an administrative authority or a qualified professional body in its country of establishment.

3. Where this is provided for by its own law and subject to the conditions laid down therein, the issuing authority may require that declarations be made on oath or by a statutory declaration in lieu of an oath.

2. Where the home Member State or the Member State from which the foreign national concerned comes does not issue the document referred to in paragraph 1, it may be replaced by a declaration on oath — or in States where there is no provision for declaration on oath by a solemn declaration — made by the person concerned before a competent judicial or administrative authority or, where appropriate, a notary in the home Member State or the Member State from which that person comes; such authority or notary shall issue a certificate atte ...[+++]sting the authenticity of the declaration on oath or solemn declaration.

(f) statements in writing, sworn or affirmed or having a similar effect under the law of the State in which the statement is drawn up.

(f)statements in writing, sworn or affirmed or having a similar effect under the law of the State in which the statement is drawn up.