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Defence Force Discipline Act 1982
52Giving false evidence
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52 Giving false evidence
(a) the person has been sworn or affirmed as a witness in proceedings before a service tribunal; and
(b) the person makes a false statement in those proceedings; and
(c) the person knows the statement to be false or does not believe it to be true; and
(d) the statement is material in those proceedings.
(2) A person is not liable to be convicted of an offence under this section only on the evidence of one witness as to the falsity of the statement alleged to be false.