Perjury.
CHAPTER 214.
PERJURY.
[CAP. 214
To consolidate and simplify the law relating to perjury and kindred offences.
[29th September, 1922.]
21 of 1922. Fraser 21 of 1922.
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Perjury Ordinance.
Short title.
2. In this Ordinance, "oath" and "affidavit" include, in the case of persons allowed or required by law to affirm instead of swearing, "affirmation"; and "swear" in the like case includes "affirm".
Interpreta-tion.
1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 6, s. 15 (2).
3. (1) If any person lawfully sworn as a witness or as an interpreter, either generally or in a particular judicial proceeding, wilfully makes a statement in any judicial proceeding which is material in that proceeding and which he knows to be false or does not believe to be true, he shall be guilty of perjury and shall on conviction thereof on indictment be liable to imprisonment for seven years and to a fine.
Perjury.
1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 6, s. 1.
(2) The expression "judicial proceeding" includes a proceeding before any court, tribunal or person having by law power to hear, receive and examine evidence on oath.
(3) Where a statement made for the purposes of a judicial proceeding is not made before the tribunal itself but is made on oath before a person authorized by law to administer an oath to the person who makes the statement and to record or authenticate the statement, it shall, for the purposes of this section, be treated as having been made in a judicial proceeding.
(4) A statement made by a person lawfully sworn in Hong Kong for the purposes of a judicial proceeding-
(a) in another part of His Majesty's dominions, or
(b) in a British tribunal lawfully constituted in any place by sea or land outside His Majesty's dominions, or
(c) in a tribunal of any foreign state,
shall for the purposes of this section, be treated as a statement made in a judicial proceeding in Hong Kong.
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