Perverting the course of justice

(1) Any person who does any act tending to pervert the course of justice, intending that the course of justice should thereby by perverted, commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for five years or on 155 conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term of ten years. (2) It shall be within the discretion of the Director of Public Prosecutions to determine whether this offence is tried summarily or on indictment.