South Australian Current Acts South Australian Current Acts (1) A person who makes
a false statement under oath is guilty of perjury.
Maximum penalty: Imprisonment for 7 years.
(2) A person who
counsels, procures, induces, aids or abets another to make a false statement
under oath is guilty of subornation of perjury.
Maximum penalty: Imprisonment for 7 years.
(3) In proceedings on
a charge of perjury or subornation of perjury, an apparently genuine document
that appears to be a transcript of evidence given in other
judicial proceedings is to be accepted as evidence—
(a) of
the evidence given in those other proceedings; and
(b)
where evidence appears from the transcripts to have been given by a particular
person—that it was so given; and
(c)
where evidence appears from the transcript to have been given under
oath—that it was so given.
(4) It is not
necessary for the conviction of a person for perjury or subornation of perjury
that evidence of the perjury be corroborated.
(5) For the purposes
of this section—
(a)
"oath" includes an affirmation;
"statement" includes an interpretation by an interpreter; and
(b) a
statement will be taken to be false if it is false in a material particular
and—
(i)
in the case of perjury—the person by whom it was
made knew it to be false or did not believe it to be true; or
(ii)
in the case of subornation of perjury—the person
who counselled, procured, induced, aided or abetted the other person to make
the statement knew it to be false or did not believe it to be true.