{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:article:175","workId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:en","title":"Perjury","number":"175","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/175/","hierarchy":{"part":"PART II — THE SPECIAL PART","book":"BOOK II — OFFENCES AGAINST THE INTERESTS OF THE STATE","title":null,"chapter":"Chapter 7. — Offences against the Administration of Justice"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"lead","number":"","text":"A person who being under oath or affirmation, intentionally gives false testimony, conceals the truth or provides misleading information before a Court or other agency authorized to administer oaths to witnesses or experts, is guilty of perjury, a Class 8 serious offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 3 years and not more than 5 years.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/175/#lead","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":148,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/148/?article=175&paragraph=lead#article-175-lead"},{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":149,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/149/?article=175&paragraph=lead#article-175-lead"}]}],"caution":"English-language 2015 Ministry of Justice edition. Refworld catalogues this English expression as an unofficial translation; Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation."}