Queensland Consolidated Acts

CRIMINAL CODE 1899 - SECT 697

697 Court may direct certain persons to be prosecuted for perjury

(1) If it appears to any court that any person has been guilty of perjury in any testimony given before it, the court may commit the person to take the person’s trial for such perjury before any court of competent jurisdiction in the same manner as if the person had been charged before a justice with the same perjury, and sufficient evidence had been given against the person.

(2) A person so committed may be granted bail in the same manner as if the person had been committed for trial by a justice.

(3) The court may order that any person be given a notice to appear and give evidence at the trial of a person so directed to be prosecuted.

(4) In this section—

"court" includes any person before whom a writ of inquiry is executed, but does not include a Magistrates Court.