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No defence to prove that the threat was not made directly.
Penalties,
CAP. 200]
Crimes
[1984 Ed.
26. It shall be no defence to a charge under section 24 to prove that the threat was not addressed directly to the person whose person, reputation or property was to be injured, or to the person (if any) against whom the illegal act was to be committed, or to the person whom it was intended to alarm, or to the person whose conduct was intended to be affected, if the threat was made or published in some manner with the intention that it should reach the person whom it was intended to alarm, or (as the case may be) whose conduct was intended to be affected, and that it did reach such person.
(13 of 1920, s. 3, incorporated. Amended, 5 of 1924, s. 18)
27. Any person who commits an offence against section 24 or 25 shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of $2,000 and to imprisonment for 2 years and shall be liable on conviction upon indictment to imprisonment for 5 years.
(13 of 1920, s. 4, incorporated. Amended, 5 of 1924, s. 18 and 22 of 1950, Schedule)
PART V
PERJURY
Interpretation.
Extracurial statements on oath made for purposes of a judicial proceeding.
Materiality of a statement is a question of law.
Perjury.
1911 c. 6. s. 1.
28. In this Part-
"judicial proceeding" includes a proceeding before any court, tribunal or person having by law power to hear, receive and examine evidence on oath.
(21 of 1922, s. 3(2), incorporated)
29. (1) Where a statement made for the purposes of a judicial proceeding is not made before a court, tribunal or person having by law power to hear, receive and examine evidence on oath 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 be deemed for the purposes of this Part to have been made in a judicial proceeding.
(2) A statement made by a person lawfully sworn in Hong Kong for the purposes of a judicial proceeding elsewhere shall be deemed for the purposes of this Part to have been made in a judicial proceeding in Hong Kong.
(45 of 1967, s. 3, incorporated)
30. The question whether a statement on which any offence against this Part is assigned was material is a question of law to be determined by the court.
(45 of 1967, s. 3, incorporated)
31. 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