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CRIMINAL CODE 1924 - SECT 94

   Perjury
(1)  Any person lawfully sworn as a witness, or as an interpreter, in a judicial proceeding, who wilfully makes a statement which he knows to be false or does not believe to be true, is guilty of a crime.
Charge:  Perjury.
(2)  For the purposes of this section a statement is deemed to be made in a judicial proceeding if it is made on oath for the purposes of any such proceeding, whether before or after the same is commenced, before a person authorized by law to administer such oath and to record or authenticate such statement.
(3)  A statement made by a person lawfully sworn in this State for the purposes of a judicial proceeding
(a) in any other part of His Majesty's dominions;
(b) in any lawfully constituted British tribunal in any place by sea or land outside His Majesty's dominions; or
(c) in a tribunal of any foreign State –
shall be deemed to be made in a judicial proceeding in this State.
(4)  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  
(5)  It is immaterial whether the court or tribunal in which a judicial proceeding was pending was properly constituted, or was held in the proper place, or not, if it acted as a court or tribunal in the proceeding in which the statement was made.
(6)  It is immaterial whether the person who made the statement was a competent witness or not, or whether the statement was admissible as evidence in the proceeding or not.



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