South Africa

Implementation of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (Act No. 27 of 2002)

Chapter 4
Cooperation with and assistence to Court in or outside South Africa

Part 2
Judicial assistance to court (ss 14-32)

18 Offences by witnesses

(2) Any person who, after having been sworn or having made an affirmation as contemplated in section 16 (3), gives false evidence before a magistrate knowing such evidence to be false or not knowing or believing it to be true, is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to the penalty which a competent South African court of law may impose for perjury.

Keywords

Giving false testimony
Presenting false or forged evidence



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