PERJURY.
No. 21 of 1922.
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suborn any other person, to commit any such offence, it is sufficient
(a) where such offence has been committed, to allege that offence and then to allege that the defendant procured the commission of that offence; and
(b) where such offence has not been committed, to set forth the substance of the offence charged against the defendant without setting forth any matter or thing which it is unnecessary to aver in the case of an indictment for a false statement or false representation punishable under this Ordinance.
1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 6, s. 13.
14. A person shall not be liable to be convicted of any Corrobora- offence against this Ordinance, or of any offence declared by tion. any other enactment to be perjury or subornation of perjury or to be punishable as perjury or subornation of perjury, solely upon the evidence of one witness as to the falsity of any statement alleged to be false.
15. On a prosecution-
Proof of certain
(1) for perjury alleged to have been committed on the proceedings trial of an indictment for felony or misdemeanor; or
(2) for procuring or suborning the commission of perjury on any such trial,
the fact of the former trial shall be sufficiently proved by the production of a certificate containing the substance and effect (omitting the formal parts) of the indictment and trial, purporting to be signed by the Registrar or other person having the custody of the records of the court where the indictment was tried, or by the deputy of that Registrar or other person, without proof of the signature or official character of the Registrar or person appearing to have signed the certificate.
16. For the purposes of this Ordinance, the forms and ceremonies used in administering an oath are immaterial, if the court or person before whom the oath is taken has power to administer an oath for the purpose of verifying the statement in question and if the oath has been administered in a form and with ceremonies which the person taking the oath has accepted without objection, or has declared to be binding on him.
on which perjury is assigned.
1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 6, s. 14.
Form of oath.
1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 6, s. 15.