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424. Perjury.

Whoever commits perjury shall be liable to imprisonment for ten years.

425. Perjury on trial for capital crime.

Whoever commits perjury with intent to cause the conviction of any person for any crime punishable with death, shall be liable to imprisonment for life .

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426. Fabrication of evidence.

Whoever fabricates evidence, with intent to defeat, obstruct or pervert the course of justice in any proceeding, shall be liable to the same penalties as if he had committed perjury in that proceeding .

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428. Destruction, etc., of public register, etc.

Whoever intentionally and unlawfully falsifies, destroys, injures, removes or conceals any public register of marriages, births, baptisms, deaths or burials, or any other public register or record, or any will or any document of title to land, with intent to defeat, obstruct or pervert the course of justice, or to defraud or injure any person, shall be liable to imprisonment for twenty years .

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429. Removal, etc., of document used in judicial proceeding.

Whoever unlawfully, with intent to defeat, obstruct or pervert the course of justice, or to defraud or injure any person, removes, conceals, injures or alters any instrument or document used or intended to be used in any judicial proceeding shall be liable to imprisonment for two years .

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432.Deceit of public officer.

Whoever, with intent to defeat, obstruct or pervert the course of justice, or the due execution of the law, or to evade the requirements of the law, or to defraud or injure any person, endeavours to deceive any public officer acting in the execution of any public office or duty, by personation or by any false instrument, document, seal or signature, or by any false statement, whether verbal or in writing, is guilty of a misdemeanour.

433. Bringing fictitious action.

Whoever fraudulently brings any action against another person in a false or fictitious name, having no ground for such action, is guilty of a misdemeanour.

434. Repealed.

435. Repealed.

436. Disobedience to summons as witness.
Whoever without reasonable excuse makes default in obeying any summons, process or order lawfully issued or made for his attendance or for his examination on oath as a witness in any judicial proceeding, or for the production by him of any written or other evidence in any judicial proceeding is guilty of a misdemeanour.

437. Hindrance of inquest.

Whoever with intent to prevent, obstruct or delay the taking of any inquest upon the body or touching the death of any person, or to defeat the ends of justice, buries or in any manner conceals or disposes of the body, shall be liable to imprisonment for two years.

438. Neglect to hold inquest, etc.

(1) Whoever, being under a duty as a magistrate, coroner, gaoler, peace officer, or in any other capacity, to give any notice or take any measures in order to the holding of an inquest upon the body or touching the death of any person, wilfully and without reasonable excuse fails to perform the duty, shall be liable to imprisonment for two years.

(2) A prosecution for an offence under this section shall not be instituted except by the Attorney-General or with his consent .

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439. Disturbance of court.

Whoever with force, threats or tumult, hinders, interrupts or disturbs the proceeding of any court, or wilfully or unlawfully, with force, threats or tumult, hinders any person from entering or quitting any court, or removes him therefrom, or detains him therein, shall be liable to imprisonment for two years .