250.- Every person who commits perjury or abets perjury, with intent to cause the conviction of any person for a crime punishable with death, shall be liable to imprisonment for life.


251.- Every person who commits perjury or abets perjury, with intent to cause the conviction of any person for any crime not capital, shall be liable to imprisonment for fourteen years or for any greater term to which such person would, on conviction of that crime, be liable.

253.- Every person who commits perjury or abets perjury, in furtherance of any purpose or conspiracy to defraud by personation, shall be liable to imprisonment for life.

255.- (1) Every person who, having given evidence on oath at a preliminary inquiry–

(a) wilfully gives at the trial evidence which contradicts the evidence given by him upon the same subject-matter at the preliminary inquiry; or
(b) wilfully varies or alters at the trial the evidence given by him upon the same subject-matter at the preliminary inquiry,

with intent unlawfully to shield or injure any person, or to deceive the court or to defeat, obstruct or pervert the course of justice, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour punishable either on indictment or summarily,

provided that the punishment on summary conviction shall not exceed imprisonment for six months.

CRIMINAL CODE

PART I - General Provisions

TITLE XV - Perjury and Obstruction of Public Justice

1. Perjury and Other Crimes Relating to Evidence and to Judicial Proceedings

250. Every person who commits perjury or abets perjury, with intent to cause the conviction of any person for a crime punishable with death, shall be liable to imprisonment for life.

251. Every person who commits perjury or abets perjury, with intent to cause the conviction of any person for any crime not capital, shall be liable to imprisonment for fourteen years or for any greater term to which such person would, on conviction of that crime, be liable.