Section 101Part 4 — Offences Against the Administration of Lawful Authority
Perjury and subornation of perjury
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A person who in any judicial proceeding, or for the purpose of instituting any judicial proceeding, knowingly gives false testimony touching any matter which is material to any question then depending in that proceeding or intended to be raised in that proceeding, commits the offence of perjury.
It is immaterial —
whether the testimony is given on oath or under any other sanction authorised by law;
what forms and ceremonies are used in administering the oath or in otherwise binding the person giving the testimony to speak the truth if such person assents to the forms and ceremonies actually used;
whether the false testimony is given orally or in writing;
whether the court or tribunal is constituted, or is held in the proper place, if it actually acts as a court or tribunal in the proceeding in which the testimony is given; or
whether the person who gives the testimony is a competent witness.
A person who aids, abets, counsels, procures or suborns another person to commit perjury commits the offence of subornation of perjury.
A person who lawfully sworn as an interpreter in a judicial proceeding wilfully makes a statement material in the proceedings which that person knows to be false or does not believe to be true commits perjury.
A person who commits perjury or suborns perjury is liable to imprisonment for seven years.