Section 19, Perjury Act, 1911.

ing. False statutory declarations and other false statements without oath. False declarations, etc. to obtain registration, etc. for carrying on a vocation. Aiders, abettors, suborners, etc. Venue. Application of Vexatious Indictments Act, 1859. Form of indictment. Corroboration. Proof of certain proceedings on which perjury is assigned. Interpretation, etc. Savings. Short title and commencement. PERJURY ACT, 1911. [1 & 2 GEo. 5. CH. 6.] An Act to consolidate and simplify the Law relating to Perjury A.D. 1911. and kindred offences. [29TH JUNE, 1911.] Perjury. statements on oath made otherwise than in a judicial proceeding. .41 & 42 Viet. c. 31. {3) Where a statement made for the purposes 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. (4) A statement made by a person lawfully sworn in England for the purposes of a judicial proceeding- (a) in another part of His Majesty's dominions; or (b) in a British tribunal lawfully constituted in any place by sea or land outside His Majesty's dominions; or (c) in a tribunal of any foreign state, shall, for the purposes .of this section, be treated as a statement made in a judicial proceeding in England. (5) Where, for the purposes of a judicial proceeding in England, a person is lawfully sworn under the authority of an Act of Parliament- (a) in any other part of His Majesty's dominions; or (b) before a British tribunal or a British officer in a foreign country, or within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty of England; a statement made by such person so sworn as aforesaid (unless the Act of Parliament under which it was made otherwise specifically provides) shall be treated for the purposes of this section as having been made in the judicial proceeding in England for the purposes whereof it was made. (6) 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. 2. If any person- (1) being required or authorised by law to make any statement on oath for any purpose, and being lawfully sworn (otherwise than in a judicial proceeding) wilfully makes a statement which is material for that purpose and which he knows to be false or does not believe to be true ; or (2) wilfully uses any false affidavit for the purposes of the Bills of Sale Act, 1878, as amended by any subsequent enactment; he shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and, on conviction thereof on indictment, shall be liable to penal servitude for a term not exceeding seven years or to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for a term not exceeding two years, or to a fine or to both such penal servitude or imprisonment and fine. 3. (Not applied.) 4. (Not applied.) 5. If any person knowingly and wilfully makes (otherwise than on oath) a statement false in a material particular, and the statement is made- (a) in a statutory declaration; or (b) in an abstract, account, balance sheet, book, certificate, declaration, entry, estimate, inventory, notice, report, return, or other document which he is authorised or required to make, attest, or verify, by any public general Act of Parliament for the time being in force ; or (c) in any oral declaration or oral answer which he is required to make by, under, or in pursuance of any public general Act of Parliament for the time being in force; he shall be guilty of a misdemeanour and shall be liable on conviction thereof on indictment to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding two years, or to a fine or to both such imprisonment and :fine. 6. If any person- (a) procures or attempts to procure himself to be registered on any register or roll kept under or in pursuance of any public general Act of Parliament for the time being in force of persons qualified by law to practise any vocation or calling; or (b) procures or attempts to procure a certificate of the registration of any person on any such register or roll as aforesaid; by wilfully making or producing or causing to be made or produced either verbally or in writing, any declaration, certificate, or representation which he knows to be false or fraudulent, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanour and shall be liable on conviction thereof on indictment to imprisonment for any term not exceeding twelve months, or to a :fine, or to both such imprisonment and :fine. statutory declarations and other false statements without oath. declarations, etc. to obtain registration, etc. for carrying on a vocation. 7. (I) Every person who aids, abets, counsels, procures, or Aiders, suborns another person to commit an offence against this Act :~~~~~:;s shall be liable to be proceeded against, indicted, tried and etc. ' punished as if he were a principal offender. (2) Every person who incites or attempts to procure or suborn another person to commit an offence against this Act 198 Perjury Act, 1911 shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and, on conviction thereof on indictment, shall be liable to imprisonment, or to a fine, or to both such imprisonment and fine. 8. Venue. Where an offence against this Act or any offence punishable Application of Vexatious Indictments Act, 1859. 22 & 23 Viet. c. 17. 14 & 15 Viet. c. 100. Form of indictment. as perjury or as subornation of perjury under any other Act of Parliament is committed in any place either on sea or land outside the United Kingdom, the offender may be proceeded against, indicted, tried, and punished in any county or place in England where he was apprehended or is in custody as if the offence had been committed in that county or place; and, for all purposes incidental to or consequential on the trial or punishment of the offence, it shall be deemed to have been committed in that county or place. 9. (Not applied.) 10. (Not applied.) 11. The provisions of the Vexatious Indictments Act, 1859, and the Acts amending the same, shall apply in the case of any offence punishable under this Act, and in the case of any offence which under any other enactment for the time being in force, is declared to be perjury or subornation of perjury or is made punishable as perjury or as subornation of perjury, in like manner as if all the said offences were enumerated in section 1 of the said Vexatious Indictments Act, 1859: Provided that in that section a reference to this Act shall be substituted for the reference therein to the Criminal Procedure Act, 1851. 12. (1) In an indictment- (a) for making any false statement or false representation punishable under this Act; or (b) for· unlawfully, wilfully, falsely, fraudulently, deceitfully, maliciously, or corruptly taking, making, signing, or subscribing any oath, affirmation, solemn declaration, statutory declaration, affidavit, deposition, notice, certificate, or other writing; it is sufficient to set forth the substance of the offence charged, and before which court or person (if any) the offence was committed without setting forth the proceedings or any part of the proceedings in the course of which the offence was committed, and without setting forth the authority of any court or person before whom the offence was committed. , • (2) In an indictment for aiding, abetting, counselling, suborning, or procuring any other person to commit any offence hereinbefore in this section mentioned, or for conspiring with any other person, or with attempting to suborn or procure any other person, to commit any such offence, it is sufficient- (a) where such offence has been committed, to allege that offence, and then to allege that the defendant procured the commission of that offence; and (b) where such offence has not been committed, to set forth the substance of the offence charged against the defendant without setting forth any matter or thing which it is unnecessary to aver in the case of an indictment for a false statement or false representation punishable under this Act. 13. A person shall not be liable to be convicted of any f.orroboraoffence against this Act, or of any offence declared by any other Ion. Act to be perjury or subornation of perjury, or to be punishable as perjury or subornation of perjury solely upon the evidence of one witness as to the falsity of any statement alleged to be false. 14. On a prosecution- (a) for perjury alleged to have been committed on the trial of an indictment for felony or misdemeanour; or (b) for procuring or suborning the commission of perjury on any such trial; the fact of the former trial shall be sufficiently proved by the production of a certificate containing the substance and effect (omitting the formal parts) of the indictment and trial purporting to be signed by the clerk of the court, or other person having the custody of the records of the court where the indictment was tried, or by the deputy of that clerk or other person, without proof of the signature or official character of the clerk or person appearing to have signed the certificate. 15. (1) For the purposes of this Act, the forms and ceremonies used in administering an oath are immaterial, if the court or person before whom the oath is taken has power to administer an oath for the purpose of verifying the statement in question, and if the oath has been administered in a form and with ceremonies which the person taking the oath has accepted without objection, or has declared to be binding on him. (2) In this Actthe expression "oath" in the case of persons for the time being allowed by law to affirm or declare instead of swearing, Proof of certain proceedings on which perjury is assigned. Interpretation, etc. 5 & 6 Will. 4. c. 62. Savings. Short title and commencement. includes " affirmation "and" declaration," and the expression " swear " in the like case includes " affirm " and " declare " · 'and the expression " statutory declaration " means a declaration made by virtue of the Statutory Declarations Act, 1835, or of any Act, Order in Council, rule or regulation applying or extending the provisions thereof; and the expression " indictment " includes " criminal information." 16. (1) \Vbere the making of a false statement is not only an offence under this Act, but also by virtue of some other Act is a corrupt practice or subjects the offender to any forfeiture or disqualification or to any penalty other than penal servitude, or imprisonment, or fine, the liability of the offender under this Act shall be in addition to and not in substitution for his liability under such other Act. (3) (Not applied.) 17. The enactments specified in the schedule to this Act are hereby repealed, so far as they apply to England, to the extent specified in the third column of that schedule. 18. (Not applied.) 19. This Act may be cited as the Perjury Act, 1911, and shall come into operation on the first day of January nineteen hundred and twelve. FORGERY ACT, 1913. [3 & 4 GEO. 5. CH. 27.] 1., Definition of forgery. 2. Forgery of certain documents with intent to defraud. 3. Forgery of certain documents with intent to defraud or deceive. 4. Forgery of other documents with intent to defraud or to deceive a misdemeanour. 5. Forgery of seals and dies. 6. Uttering. * The schedule is omitted from this printing of the sections which have been applied Forget·y Act, 1913 7. Demanding property on forged documents, etc. 8. Possession of forged documents, seals, and dies. 9. Making or having in possession paper or implements for forgery. 10. Purchasing or having in possession certain paper before it has been duly stamped and issued. 11. Accessories and a bettors. 12. Punishments. 13. (Not applied.) 14. Venue. 15. Criminal possession. 16. Search warrants. 17. Form of indictment and proof of intent. 18. Interpretation. 19. Savings.