SPECIAL PART
Chapter XV
Crimes Against the Purity of State Administration, the Administration of Justice and Public Life
Title VI
Crimes Against the Administration of Justice
Giving False Evidence
Section 238
(1) The witness who gives untruthful evidence before the court or another authority concerning an essential circumstance of an affair, or he is silent about reality, commits giving false evidence.
(2) The provisions relating to giving false evidence shall be applied to the person who
a) gives false expert opinion as an expert, or false information as special adviser,
b) falsely translates as an interpreter or a translator,
c) makes available a false document or a false material evidence in criminal or civil proceedings, apart from the case of Section 233, subsection (1), paragraph b).
(3) The accused of the criminal proceedings shall not be punishable on the basis of subsection (2) paragraph c).
(4) The punishment of giving false evidence committed in a criminal case shall be - for a felony - imprisonment of up to five years. If giving false evidence concerns a crime for which life imprisonment may also be inflicted, the punishment shall be imprisonment from two years to eight years.
(5) The punishment for giving false evidence committed in a civil case shall be for a felony imprisonment of up to three years, and if the subject-matter of case is an especially great pecuniary value or another especially important interest, the punishment shall be imprisonment of up to five years.
(6) The person who commits giving false evidence by negligence shall be punishable for a misdemeanour with imprisonment of up to one year, labour in the public interest, or fine.
Offences against administration of justice
Giving false testimony
Presenting false or forged evidence
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