Marshall Islands

Criminal Code

TITLE 31. CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS

CHAPTER 1.
CRIMINAL CODE

PART XXIII - PERJURY

ยง 149. Defined ; punishment.

Every person who takes an oath or any legal substitute therefor before a competent tribunal, officer, or person, in any case in which a law of the Republic authorizes an oath or any legal substitute therefor to be administered, that he will testify, declare, depose, or certify truly, or that any written testimony, deposition, or certificate by him subscribed is true, and who willfully and contrary to such an oath or legal substitute therefor states or subscribes any material which he does not believe to be true, shall be guilty of perjury and shall upon conviction be liable to a term of imprisonment not exceeding five (5) years.

Keywords

Offences against administration of justice
Giving false testimony
National penalties - offences against the administration of justice
National penalties - maximum penalty



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