Section 42 Amendment of False Oaths (Scotland) Act, 1933.

Section two of the M1False Oaths (Scotland) Act 1933 (which penalises certain false statements) shall apply in like manner as it applies to the statements therein mentioned to any oral statement made for the purpose of any entry in a register kept in pursuance of any Act of Parliament.

Any proceedings under F1Part II of the M2Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975for an offence against the M3False Oaths (Scotland) Act 1933 may, notwithstanding anything in the first mentioned Act, be commenced at any time within one year from the date of the commission of the offence, or within three months from the date when evidence sufficient in the opinion of the Lord Advocate to justify the proceedings comes to his knowledge whichever period last expires; and for the purposes of this subsection a certificate purporting to be signed by or on behalf of the Lord Advocate as to the date on which such evidence as aforesaid came to his knowledge shall be conclusive evidence thereof.