GENERAL PART

Chapter Twenty-Eight
CRIMINAL OFFENCES AGAINST ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE

False Deposition

Article 284

(1) A witness, expert, appraiser, translator or interpreter who gives a false deposition before the court in a trial for misdemeanour, in the course of parliamentary investigation, or during disciplinary or administrative proceedings ; an expert or appraiser who produces a false opinion in writing ; or a translator who makes a false written translation, shall be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than three years.

(2) The same sentence shall be imposed on any party who, being heard in civil, non-contentious, execution or administrative proceedings, produces a false statement upon which the court or other competent authority has based its decision in such proceedings.

(3) For perjuring himself before the criminal court, a perpetrator shall be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than five years.

(4) If the offence under the preceding paragraph entails particularly serious consequences for the accused, the perpetrator shall be sentenced to imprisonment for not less than one and not more than eight years.

(5) If the perpetrator withdraws a false statement before a judgment is passed, he shall be punished by a fine or his punishment shall be remitted.

GENERAL PART

Chapter Twenty-Eight

CRIMINAL OFFENCES AGAINST ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE

False Deposition
Article 284

(1) A witness, expert, appraiser, translator or interpreter who gives a false deposition before the court in a trial for misdemeanour, in the course of parliamentary investigation, or during disciplinary or administrative proceedings; an expert or appraiser who produces a false opinion in writing; or a translator who makes a false written translation, shall be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than three years.

(2) The same sentence shall be imposed on any party who, being heard in civil, non-contentious, execution or administrative proceedings, produces a false statement upon which the court or other competent authority has based its decision in such proceedings.

(3) For perjuring himself before the criminal court, a perpetrator shall be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than five years.

(4) If the offence under the preceding paragraph entails particularly serious consequences for the accused, the perpetrator shall be sentenced to imprisonment for not less than one and not more than eight years.

(5) If the perpetrator withdraws a false statement before a judgment is passed, he shall be punished by a fine or his punishment shall be remitted.