Hungary

Criminal Code

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 241

(1) That person shall not be punishable for giving false evidence

a) who would accuse himself or his relative with the perpetration of a crime in case of revealing reality,
b) who may deny giving evidence for any other reason, but was not admonished as regards this fact before being heard, or whose hearing is precluded by the law.

(2) The punishment may be mitigated without limitation, in a case deserving special appreciation even dispensed with, against a person who announces the falsity of the means of evidence provided by him to the acting authority before the non-appealable termination of the basic affair.

Keywords

Offences against administration of justice
Presenting false or forged evidence



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