=16.= (1) Where the making of a false statement is not only an offence under this Act, but also by virtue of some other Act is a corrupt practice or subjects the offender to any forfeiture or disqualification or to any penalty other than penal servitude, or imprisonment, or fine, the liability of the offender under this Act shall be in addition to and not in substitution for his liability under such other Act. (2) Nothing in this Act shall apply to a statement made without oath by a child under the provisions of the Prevention of Cruelty to Children Act, 1904, and the Children Act, 1908. (3) Where the making of a false statement is by any other Act, whether passed before or after the commencement of this Act, made punishable on summary conviction proceedings may be taken either under such other Act or under this Act: Provided that where such an offence is by any Act passed before the commencement of this Act, as originally enacted, made punishable only on summary conviction, it shall remain only so punishable. =17.= The enactments specified in the schedule of this Act are hereby repealed, so far as they apply to England, to the extent specified in the third column of that schedule. =18.= This Act shall not extend to Scotland or Ireland. =19.= This Act may be cited as the Perjury Act, 1911, and shall come into operation on the first day of January, nineteen hundred and twelve. The schedule attached to the new Bill--which comes to an end, so far as the provisions are concerned, with clause 19--repeals one hundred and thirty-two legislative measures, the first one to go, being 52 Hen. 8. c. 9.--“Agenst maintenance and embracery byeng of titles, etc.” The Perjury Bill promises to crush out many anomalous conditions, not the least of which are those connected with the facility afforded at present to the supply of false data to registrars of births and deaths, more particularly in respect to births. Under existing conditions, by a passive method of _suppressio veri_, as opposed to _expressio falsi_, the most grossly inaccurate entries may be recorded in the registers. For a person who voluntarily sets himself to speak what is false, there is no limit to the length to which he may go, without let or hindrance. By the force of the new Bill, this state of affairs will come to an abrupt and timely end. It is high time, too, for the records of England are filled with the most unwarrantable entries.