PART II – CRIMES

Division II – Offences against the Administration of Lawful Authority

CHAPTER X – ABUSE OF OFFICE

102. False certificates by public officers
Any person who, being authorized or required by law to give any certificate touching any matter by virtue whereof the rights of any person may be prejudicial affected, gives a certificate which is, to his knowledge, false in any material particular, is guilty of a felony.

PART II – CRIMES

Division II – Offences against the Administration of Lawful Authority

CHAPTER XI – OFFENCES RELATING TO THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE

108. Perjury and subornation of perjury
(a) Any person who, in any judicial proceeding, or for the purpose of instituting any judicial proceeding, knowingly gives false testimony touching any matter which is material to any question then pending in that proceeding or intended to be raised in that proceeding, is guilty of the misdemeanour termed perjury.
(b) It is immaterial whether the testimony is given on oath or under any other sanction authorized by law.
(c) The forms and ceremonies used in administering the oath or in otherwise binding the person giving the testimony to speak the truth are immaterial, if he assent to the forms and ceremonies actually used.
(d) It is immaterial whether the false testimony is given orally or in writing.
(e) It is immaterial whether the court or tribunal is properly constituted,mor is held in the proper place or not, if it actually acts as a court or tribunal in the proceeding in which the testimony is given.
(f) It is immaterial whether the person who gives the testimony is a
competent witness or not, or whether the testimony is admissible in the proceeding or not.
(2) Any person who aids, abets, counsels, procures or suborns another person to commit perjury is guilty of the misdemeanour termed subornation of perjury.

109. False statements by interpreters
If any person, lawfully sworn as an interpreter in a judicial proceeding, wilfully makes a statement material in the proceeding which he knows to be false, or does not believe to be true, he shall be guilty of perjury.

PART II – CRIMES

Division II – Offences against the Administration of Lawful Authority

CHAPTER XI – OFFENCES RELATING TO THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE

113. Fabricating evidence
Any person who, with intent to mislead any tribunal in any judicial proceeding—
(a) fabricates evidence by any means other than perjury or subornation of perjury; or
(b) knowingly makes use of such fabricated evidence, is guilty of a misdemeanour and is liable to imprisonment for seven years.

PART II – CRIMES

Division IV – Offences against the Person

CHAPTER XXXV – PUNISHMENT FOR FORGERY

351. Forgery of judicial or official document
Any person who forges any judicial or official document is liable to imprisonment for seven years.

352. Forgery of, and other offences in relation to, stamps
Any person who—
(a) forges any stamp, whether impressed or adhesive, used for the purposes of revenue or accounting by any Government department; or
(b) without lawful excuse, the proof whereof shall lie upon him, makes or has knowingly in his possession any die or instrument capable of making the impression of any such stamp; or
(c) fraudulently cuts, tears in any way or removes from any material any stamp used for purposes of revenue or accounting by the Government, with intent that another use shall be made of such stamp or any part thereof; or
(d) fraudulently mutilates any such stamp as last aforesaid, with intent that another use shall be made of such stamp; or
(e) fraudulently fixes or places upon any material or upon any such stamp as last aforesaid any stamp or part of a stamp which, whether fraudulently or not, has been cut, torn or in any way removed from any other material or out of or from any other stamp; or
(f) fraudulently erases or otherwise either really or apparently removes from any stamped material any name, sum, date or other matter or thing whatsoever written thereon with the intent that another use shall be made of the stamp upon such material; or
(g) knowingly and without lawful excuse, the proof whereof shall lie upon him, has in his possession any stamp or part of a stamp which has been fraudulently cut, torn, or otherwise removed from any material, or any stamp which has been fraudulently mutilated, or any stamped material out of which any name, sum, date or other matter or thing has been fraudulently erased or otherwise really or apparently removed, is liable to imprisonment for seven years

PART VI – SERVICE OFFENCES

Offences concerning Courts Martial and other Authorities

107. False evidence
(1) A person subject to this Act who, having been lawfully sworn as a witness or as an interpreter in proceedings before a court-martial or before any board or person having power under this Act to administer oaths, makes a statement that is material in those proceedings, knowing it to be false, or not believing it to be true, commits an offence and shall be liable, on conviction by a court-martial, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven years or any lesser punishment provided for by this Act.

(2) A person shall not be liable of an offence under this section solely upon the evidence of one witness as to the falsity of any statement alleged to be false.

PART I—PRELIMINARY

Offences Against Administration of Justice

13. (1) A person who—
(a) being a witness in any proceedings of the ICC, gives evidence with respect to any matter of fact or knowledge;
(b) later, in any proceedings of the Court, gives evidence that is contrary to his previous evidence; and
(c) in giving his evidence in either proceedings, does so with intent to mislead, is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term of not more than two years, whether or not the prior or later evidence is true.

PART I—PRELIMINARY

Offences Against Administration of Justice

15. A person who, in respect of any existing or
proposed proceedings of the ICC—
(a) signs a document that purports to be an affidavit or statutory declaration and to have been sworn or declared before him when the document was not so sworn or declared or when he knows that he has no authority to administer the oath or declaration;
(b) uses or offers for use any document writing purporting to be an affidavit or statutory declaration that he knows was not sworn or declared, as the case may be, by the affiant or declarant or before a person authorized to administer the oath or declaration; or
(c) signs as affiant or declarant a document that purports to be an affidavit or statutory declaration and to have been sworn or declared by him, as the case may be, when the document was not so sworn or declared, is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term of not more than two years. 10