PART XI
PERJURY AND FALSE STATEMENTS AND DECLARATIONS
Perjury
96. (1) Any person lawfully sworn as a witness or as an interpreter in a judicial proceeding who wilfully makes a statement material in that proceeding which he knows to be false or does not believe to be true shall be guilty of the misdemeanour termed perjury, and shall be liable to imprisonment for 7 years.
(2) Where a statement made for the purpose of a judicial proceeding is not made before the tribunal itself but is made on oath before a person authorised by law to administer an oath to the person who makes the statement and to record or authenticate the statement it shall, for the purposes of this section, be treated as having been made in a judicial proceeding.
(3) The question whether a statement on which perjury is assigned was material is a question of law; to be determined by the court of trial.
Offences against administration of justice
Giving false testimony
EDIT.