{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:article:178","workId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:en","title":"Aggravated False Testimony","number":"178","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/178/","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":"p1","number":"1","text":"A person who, by committing an offence under Article 177, causes another person to be wrongfully convicted of a criminal offence ranging from Class 6 serious offence through Class 3 petty offence,","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/178/#p1","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":150,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/150/?article=178&paragraph=p1#article-178-p1"}]},{"id":"p1-tail","number":"","parentId":"p1","text":"is, regardless whether the sentence has been executed or not, guilty of aggravated false testimony, 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/178/#p1-tail","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":150,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/150/?article=178&paragraph=p1-tail#article-178-p1-tail"}]},{"id":"p2","number":"2","text":"Where the resulting conviction is of a Class 1 through Class 5 serious offence, the punishment shall, regardless whether the sentence has been executed or not, be as a Class 7 serious offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not less than 5 years and not more than 7 years.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/178/#p2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":150,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/150/?article=178&paragraph=p2#article-178-p2"}]}],"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."}