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False evidence

Cap. 135, s. 54 · Revised Edition 2020

(1) Any person subject to military law who, having been lawfully sworn as a witness or as an interpreter in proceedings before a court martial or before any court of inquiry or before any person having power under military law to administer oaths, makes a statement material in those proceedings which he knows to be false or does not believe to be true shall, on conviction, be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or any less punishment provided by this Act. (2) A person shall not be liable to be convicted of an offence against this section solely upon the evidence of one witness as to the falsity of any statement alleged to be false.
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