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EVIDENCE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT 1958 - SECT 126B

False or misleading statement as to swearing etc. of affidavit

    (1)     Subject to subsection (2), a person must not make a false or misleading statement as to—

        (a)     the circumstances in which an affidavit or a document purporting to be an affidavit was sworn or affirmed; or

        (b)     whether or not an affidavit or a document purporting to be an affidavit was sworn or affirmed—

knowing that the statement is false or misleading.

Penalty:     10 penalty units.

    (2)     This section applies—

        (a)     only in relation to a statement made on or after the commencement of section 4 of the Evidence (Miscellaneous Provisions) Amendment (Affidavits) Act 2012 ; and

        (b)     whether the affidavit or the document purporting to be an affidavit was sworn or affirmed before, on or after that commencement.

Pt 5 (Heading and ss 127–129) amended by Nos 10074 s. 11(3)(b)(c), 51/1989 s. 144(2)(o)(p), 52/2001 s. 13(2)(c), 69/2009 s. 28, repealed by No. 6/2018 s. 55.

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Part VI—Recording of evidence

No. 5877 s. 2 [122].



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