{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-1925/section-28",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-1925/section-28.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo5/15-16/86",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Justice Act 1925",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-1925",
  "path": "section/28",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "28",
  "heading": "Summary proceedings for offence under s. 3, and amendments of ss. 3 and 4, of Perjury Act, 1911.",
  "text": "(1) Section three of the Perjury Act, 1911 (which relates to false statements as to marriages) shall have effect as though at the end of subsection (1) thereof there were inserted the words “and on summary conviction thereof shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds”.\n(2) A person convicted summarily of an offence under section four of thePerjury Act, 1911 (which relates to false statements as to births or deaths), shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 28(3) repealed by Criminal Law Act 1977 (c. 45), s. 65(7), Sch. 13"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "The text of s. 28(1)(2), (S. 28 (2) now spent), is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/15-16/86/section/28",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:42:19.259884+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}