Anomalies of the English lawChester, S. Beach (Samuel Beach)
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Anomalies of the English law
Chester, S. Beach (Samuel Beach)
Law; Law -- Great Britain -- History
=5.= If any person knowingly and wilfully makes (otherwise than on
oath) a statement false in a material particular, and the statement
is made--
(_a_) in a statutory declaration, or
(_b_) in an abstract account, balance sheet, book, certificate,
declaration, entry, estimate, inventory, notice, report,
return, or other document which is authorised or required to
make, attest, or verify, by (under or for the purposes of)
any public general Act of Parliament for the time being in
force, or
(_c_) in any oral declaration or oral answer which he is required
to make by (under or in pursuance of) any public general Act
of Parliament for the time being in force,
he shall be guilty of a misdemeanour and shall be liable on
conviction thereof on indictment to imprisonment with or without hard
labour, for any term not exceeding two years, or to a fine or to both
such imprisonment and fine.
=6.= If any person--
(_a_) procures or attempts to procure himself to be registered on
any register or roll kept under or in pursuance of any public
general Act of Parliament for the time being in force of
persons qualified by law to practise any vocation or calling,
or
(_b_) procures or attempts to procure a certificate of the
registration of any person on any such register or roll as
aforesaid,
by wilfully making or producing or causing to be made or produced
either verbally or in writing, any declaration, certificate, or
representation which he knows to be false or fraudulent, he shall be
guilty of a misdemeanour and shall be liable on conviction thereof on
indictment to imprisonment for any term not exceeding twelve months,
or to a fine, or to both such imprisonment and fine.
=7.= (1) Every person who aids, abets, counsels, procures, or suborns
another person to commit an offence against this Act shall be liable
to be proceeded against, indicted, tried and punished as if he were a
principal offender.
(2) Every person who incites or attempts to procure or suborn
another person to commit an offence against this Act shall be guilty
of a misdemeanour, and on conviction thereof on indictment shall be
liable to imprisonment, or to a fine, or to both such imprisonment
and fine.
=8.= Where an offence against this Act or any offence punishable as
perjury under any other Act of Parliament is committed in any place
either on sea or land outside the United Kingdom the offender may
be proceeded against, indicted, tried, and punished in any county
or place in England where he was apprehended or is in custody as if
the offence had been committed in that county or place; and for all
purposes incidental to or consequential on the trial or punishment of
the offence, it shall be deemed to have been committed in that county
or place.
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