CAP. 63 (b) Penal Code [Rev. 2012] with intent to influence any public officer, or any such sailor, soldier or airman as aforesaid, or any servant of a local authority, in or in relation to the discharge of his duty, or to cause him to fail in his duty, or to terminate his services in the discharge of his duty, or to commit a breach of discipline, refuses or threatens to refuse to deal or do trade or business with, or to supply or render, in the ordinary course of his trade or business, any goods or service to, any person, is guilty of an offence and is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years. [Act No. 54 of 1960, s. 22.] CHAPTER XI – OFFENCES RELATING TO THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE 108. Perjury and subornation of perjury (a) Any person who, in any judicial proceeding, or for the purpose of instituting any judicial proceeding, knowingly gives false testimony touching any matter which is material to any question then pending in that proceeding or intended to be raised in that proceeding, is guilty of the misdemeanour termed perjury. (b) It is immaterial whether the testimony is given on oath or under any other sanction authorized by law. (c) The forms and ceremonies used in administering the oath or in otherwise binding the person giving the testimony to speak the truth are immaterial, if he assent to the forms and ceremonies actually used. (d) It is immaterial whether the false testimony is given orally or in writing. (e) It is immaterial whether the court or tribunal is properly constituted, or is held in the proper place or not, if it actually acts as a court or tribunal in the proceeding in which the testimony is given. (f) It is immaterial whether the person who gives the testimony is a competent witness or not, or whether the testimony is admissible in the proceeding or not. (2) Any person who aids, abets, counsels, procures or suborns another person to commit perjury is guilty of the misdemeanour termed subornation of perjury. [Act No. 13 of 1982, s. 15.] 109. False statements by interpreters If any person, lawfully sworn as an interpreter in a judicial proceeding, wilfully makes a statement material in the proceeding which he knows to be false, or does not believe to be true, he shall be guilty of perjury. 110. Punishment of perjury and subornation of perjury Any person who commits perjury or suborns perjury is liable to imprisonment for seven years. [Issue 1] P6-48