'National penalties - offences against the administration of justice' in document 'Marshall Islands - Criminal Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

TITLE 31. CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS

CHAPTER 1.
CRIMINAL CODE

PART II - ABUSE OF PROCESS

§ 111. Concealment, removal or alteration of record or process.

Every person who willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, takes away, mutilates, obliterates, alters, or destroys, or attempts to do so, or willfully takes and carries away records or process in or from any court or official authorized to issue or serve the same, shall be guilty of tampering with judicial records or process, as the case may be, and shall upon conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding $1,000 or to a term of imprisonment not exceeding five (5) years, or both.

TITLE 31. CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS

CHAPTER 1.
CRIMINAL CODE

PART XXII - OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE

§ 148. Defined ; punishment

Every person who shall unlawfully resist or interfere with any law enforcement officer in the lawful pursuit of his duties, or shall unlawfully tamper with witnesses or prevent or attempt to prevent their attendance at trials, shall be guilty of obstructing justice and shall upon conviction be liable to a Fine not exceeding $1,000 or to a term of imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both.

TITLE 31. CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS

CHAPTER 1.
CRIMINAL CODE

PART XXIII - PERJURY

§ 149. Defined ; punishment.

Every person who takes an oath or any legal substitute therefor before a competent tribunal, officer, or person, in any case in which a law of the Republic authorizes an oath or any legal substitute therefor to be administered, that he will testify, declare, depose, or certify truly, or that any written testimony, deposition, or certificate by him subscribed is true, and who willfully and contrary to such an oath or legal substitute therefor states or subscribes any material which he does not believe to be true, shall be guilty of perjury and shall upon conviction be liable to a term of imprisonment not exceeding five (5) years.