Power to direct a prosecution for perjury

(1) Where any of the following authorities namely, a judge of the Supreme Court, magistrate or coroner is of opinion that any person has, in the course of a proceeding before that authority, been guilty of perjury, the authority may order the prosecution of that person for such perjury, where there appears to be reasonable cause for such prosecution and may commit him to prison or admit him to bail, pending such prosecution, and may require any person to enter into a recognisance to prosecute or give evidence against the person whose prosecution is so ordered, and may give the person so bound to prosecute a certificate of the making of the order for the prosecution, for which certificate no charge shall be made. (2) An order made or certificate given under this section shall not be given in evidence for the purpose or in the course of any trial of a prosecution resulting therefrom.