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No. 21 of 1922.

PERJURY.

False statu- tory declara- tions and other false statements without oath. 1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 6, s. 5.

False

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declarations, etc., to obtain

registration,

etc., for -carrying on a vocation.

1 & 2 Geo. 5,

c. 6, s. 6.

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Aiders, abettors, suborners,

(2) A prosecution on indictment for an offence against this section shall not be commenced more than three years after the commission of the offence.

7. Every person who knowingly and wilfully makes (otherwise than on oath) a statement false in a material particular, such statement being made-

(1) in a statutory declaration, or

(2) in an abstract, account, balance sheet, book, certif- icate, declaration, entry, estimate, inventory, notice, report, return, or other

or other document which he is authorised or required to make, attest, or verify, by any enactment for the time being in force, or

(3) in any oral declaration or oral answer which he is required to make by, under, or in pursuance of any enact- ment for the time being in force,

shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be liable on conviction thereof on indictment to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years and to a fine.

8. .Every person who-

(1) procures or attempts to procure himself to be register- ed on any register or roll kept under or in pursuance of any enactment for the time being in force of persons qualified by law to practise any vocation or calling; or

(2) procures or attempts to procure a certificate of the registration 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 any term not exceeding twelve months and to a fine.

9.-(1) Every person who aids, abets, counsels, procures, or suborns another person to commit an offence against this Ordinance shall be liable to be proceeded against, indicted, 1 & 2 Geo. 5, tried and punished as if he were a principal offender.

etc.

c. 6, s. 7.

* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.