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'National penalties - offences against the administration of justice' in document 'UK - Criminal Law Consolidation Scotland Act'

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The Relevant Provisions of the Rome Statute

RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

PART VI
MISCELLANEOUS AND GENERAL

False oaths etc.

44

False statements and declarations.

(1) Any person who—
(a) is required or authorised by law to make a statement on oath for any purpose;
and
(b) being lawfully sworn, wilfully makes a statement which is material for that
purpose and which he knows to be false or does not believe to be true,
shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or to a fine or to both such fine and imprisonment .