BOOK II
GENERAL PROVISIONS

PART V
OFFENCES AGAINST RIGHTS OF PROPERTY

TITLE XIV
PERJURY

142. (1) Whoever commits perjury shall be liable to impris-onment for six months.

BOOK II
GENERAL PROVISIONS

PART V
OFFENCES AGAINST RIGHTS OF PROPERTY

TITLE XIV
PERJURY

142. (3) If, upon the hearing of any complaint for an offence under this section, it appears to the Court that such offence cannot be sufficiently punished under the provisions of this section, all further proceedings thereon as for a summary offence shall be stayed, and depositions shall be taken, and the case shall in all other respects he dealt with as if the charge had been originally one for an indictable offence.

BOOK III
INDICTABLE OFFENCES

PART IX
OFFENCES AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER, HEALTH AND MORALITY

TITLE XXVI
PERJURY AND OBSTRUCTIONS OF PUBLIC JUSTICE

PERJURY AND SIMILAR OFFENCES

359. Whoever commits perjury shall be liable to imprison-ment for ten years.

BOOK III
INDICTABLE OFFENCES

PART IX
OFFENCES AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER, HEALTH AND MORALITY

TITLE XXVI
PERJURY AND OBSTRUCTIONS OF PUBLIC JUSTICE

PERJURY AND SIMILAR OFFENCES

361. 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.

BOOK III
INDICTABLE OFFENCES

PART IX
OFFENCES AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER, HEALTH AND MORALITY

TITLE XXVI
PERJURY AND OBSTRUCTIONS OF PUBLIC JUSTICE

PERJURY AND SIMILAR OFFENCES

362. 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 ten years.

BOOK III
INDICTABLE OFFENCES

PART IX
OFFENCES AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER, HEALTH AND MORALITY

TITLE XXVI
PERJURY AND OBSTRUCTIONS OF PUBLIC JUSTICE

PERJURY AND SIMILAR OFFENCES

363. 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.

BOOK III
INDICTABLE OFFENCES

PART IX
OFFENCES AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER, HEALTH AND MORALITY

TITLE XXVI
PERJURY AND OBSTRUCTIONS OF PUBLIC JUSTICE

PERJURY AND SIMILAR OFFENCES

365. Whoever with intent to defeat, obstruct or pervert the course of justice, or to defraud or injure any person, endeavours to deceive any Court, or any judicial officer by personation, or by any false instrument, document, seal or signature, shall be liable to imprisonment for two years.

BOOK III
INDICTABLE OFFENCES

PART IX
OFFENCES AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER, HEALTH AND MORALITY

TITLE XXVI
PERJURY AND OBSTRUCTIONS OF PUBLIC JUSTICE

PERJURY AND SIMILAR OFFENCES

368. Whoever in any manner wilfully causes any person to disobey any summons, process or order lawfully issued or made for his attendance as a witness in any judicial proceeding, or for production by him of any written or other evidence in any judicial proceeding is guilty of a misdemeanour.

BOOK III
INDICTABLE OFFENCES

PART IX
OFFENCES AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER, HEALTH AND MORALITY

TITLE XXVI
PERJURY AND OBSTRUCTIONS OF PUBLIC JUSTICE

PERJURY AND SIMILAR OFFENCES

369. Whoever with intent to defeat, obstruct or pervert the course of justice at the trial of any person fur any crime, in any manner causes any person to refrain from giving evidence at the trial is guilty of a misdemeanour.

BOOK III
INDICTABLE OFFENCES

PART IX
OFFENCES AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER, HEALTH AND MORALITY

TITLE XXVI
PERJURY AND OBSTRUCTIONS OF PUBLIC JUSTICE

PERJURY AND SIMILAR OFFENCES

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

BOOK III
INDICTABLE OFFENCES

PART IX
OFFENCES AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER, HEALTH AND MORALITY

TITLE XXVI
PERJURY AND OBSTRUCTIONS OF PUBLIC JUSTICE

PERJURY AND SIMILAR OFFENCES

374. Whoever in the presence of any Court is guilty of contempt of the Court by any insulting, opprobrious or menacing acts or words. is guilty of a misdemeanour.

Article 70
Offences against the administration of justice
1. The Court shall have jurisdiction over the following offences against its administration of justice when committed intentionally:
(a) Giving false testimony when under an obligation pursuant to article 69, paragraph 1, to tell the truth;
(b) Presenting evidence that the party knows is false or forged;
(c) Corruptly influencing a witness, obstructing or interfering with the attendance or testimony of a witness, retaliating against a witness for giving testimony or destroying, tampering with or interfering with the collection of evidence;
(d) Impeding, intimidating or corruptly influencing an official of the Court for the purpose of forcing or persuading the official not to perform, or to perform improperly, his or her duties;
(e) Retaliating against an official of the Court on account of duties performed by that or another official;
(f) Soliciting or accepting a bribe as an official of the Court in connection with his or her official duties.