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13 Penalty for false evidence
13 Penalty for false evidence
If any such witness wilfully makes any false statement, knowing the same to be false, the witness shall, whether such statement amounts to perjury or not, be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years.
s 13: Am 1999 No 94, Sch 4.144.