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[8. 8 cont.]
Aiders,
abettors,
Perjury.
(b) procures or attempts to procure a certificate of the resignation of any person on any such register or roll as aforesaid,
by wilfully making or producing or causing to be made or produced either verbally or in writing any declaration, certificate or representation which he knows to be false or fraudulent, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be liable on conviction thereof on indictment to imprisonment for twelve months and to a fine.
g.
(1) Any person who aids, abets, counsels, procures suborners, etc. or suborns another person to commit an offence against this Ordinance shall be liable to be proceeded against, indicted, tried and punished as if he were a principal offender.
1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 6, s. 7.
Contradictory statements on oath.
Using false affidavits.
Power to direct a prosecution for perjury.
c. 6, s. 9.
(2) Any person who incites or attempts to procure or suborn another person to commit an offence against this Ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
10. Where two or more contradictory statements of fact or alleged fact, material to the issue or matter in question, have been wilfully made on oath by one and the same witness in any judicial proceeding or proceedings, whether before the same court or tribunal or person or not, and whether the respective truth or falsehood of the said statements can be ascertained or not, an indictment may be preferred against him charging him with having wilfully made the said contradictory statements, and on conviction thereof, either in whole or in part, such witness shall be liable to imprisonment for seven years and to a fine.
11. Any person who wilfully uses for any purpose any affidavit which he knows to be false or does not believe to be true, wherever such affidavit may have been sworn, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof on indictment shall be liable to imprisonment for seven years and to a fine.
12. (1) Where any judge or magistrate is of opinion that any person has in the course of a proceeding before
1 & 2 Geo. 5, him been guilty of perjury, he may order the prosecution of that person for such perjury in case there appears to be reasonable cause for such prosecution, and may commit him, or admit him to bail, to take his trial at the proper
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