sign a document testifying to the contents of any register or
record kept by lawful authority, or testifying to any fact or event,
and signs such document as being so authorised, when he or she
is not, and knows that he or she is not, in fact, so authorised,
commits a misdemeanour.
92.
Personating public officers.
Any person who—
(a) personates any person employed in the public service on an
occasion when the latter is required to do any act or attend in any
place by virtue of his or her employment; or
(b) falsely represents himself or herself to be a person employed in
the public service and assumes to do any act or to attend in any
place for the purpose of doing any act by virtue of such
employment,
commits a misdemeanour and is liable to imprisonment for three years.
93.
Threat of injury to persons employed in public service.
Whoever holds out any threat of injury to any person employed in the public
service or to any person in whom he or she believes that person employed in
the public service to be interested, for the purpose of inducing that person
employed in the public service to do any act or to forbear or delay to do any
act connected with the exercise of the public functions of such person
employed in the public service, commits a misdemeanour.
CHAPTER X—OFFENCES RELATING TO THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE.
94.
Perjury and subornation of perjury.
(1) 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 commits the misdemeanour
termed perjury.
(2)
(a)
For the purposes of this section—
it is immaterial whether—
(i) the testimony is given on oath or under any other sanction
authorised by law;
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