BOOK II
Summary Offences

TITLE XIV
Perjury

142. Summary trial for perjury

(1) Whoever commits perjury shall be liable to imprisonment for six months.

(2) The provisions of sections 389 and 390 of this Code (which relate to the definition of perjury) shall apply to proceedings under this section.

(3) If, upon the hearing of any complaint for an offence under this section, it appears to the Court that such offence cannot be sufficiently punished under the provisions of this section, all further proceedings thereon as for a summary offence shall be stayed, and depositions shall be taken, and the case shall in all other respects be dealt with as if the charge had been originally one for an indictable offence.

''BOOK III Procedure Relating to Indictable Offences, PART V Trial in the Supreme Court, TITLE XVII
Mode of Trial, 133. Counts for perjury and certain other offences''

(1) No count charging perjury, the making of a false oath or of a false statement, or fabricating evidence, or subornation, or procuring the commission of any of these offences, shall be deemed insufficient on the ground that it does not state the nature of the authority of the tribunal before which the oath or statement was taken or made, or the subject of the inquiry, or the words used, or the evidence fabricated, or on the ground that it does not expressly negative the truth of the words used:

Provided that the Court may, if it is satisfied that it is necessary for a fair trial, order that the prosecutor shall furnish a particular of what is relied on in support of the charge.