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(1)Any person who in any judicial proceeding or for the purpose of instituting any judicial proceeding knowingly gives false testimony touching any matter which is material to any question then pending in that proceeding or intended to be raised in that proceeding commits the misdemeanour termed perjury.
(2)For the purposes of this section—
(a)it is immaterial whether—
(i)the testimony is given on oath or under any other sanction authorised by law;
(ii)the false testimony is given orally or in writing;
(iii)the court or tribunal is properly constituted, or is held in the proper place, or not, if it actually acts as a court or tribunal in the proceeding in which the testimony is given; or
(iv)the person who gives the testimony is a competent witness or not, or whether the testimony is admissible in the proceeding or not; and
(b)the forms and ceremonies used in administering the oath or in otherwise binding the person giving the testimony to speak the truth are immaterial, if he or she assents to the forms and ceremonies actually used.
(3)Any person who aids, abets, counsels, procures or suborns another person to commit perjury is guilty of the misdemeanour termed subornation of perjury.
A person who knowingly gives false testimony in a judicial proceeding, or to start one, commits the offence of perjury. The false statement must be ab...
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