--(1) The general rule is that an affidavit may contain only such facts as the deponent is able to prove from his own knowledge.
--(2) However, an affidavit may contain statements of information and belief-
----(a) where any of these Rules so allows; and
----(b) where it is for use in any procedural or interlocutory application or in an application for summary judgment,
--provided that the source of such information and the ground of such belief is stated in the affidavit.
--(3) The court may order that any scandalous, irrelevant or otherwise oppressive matter be struck out of any affidavit.
--(4) No affidavit containing any alteration maybe used in evidence unless all such alterations have been initialled by the person before whom the affidavit was sworn.
Notes
Amended by Legal Notice 140 of 2000.
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