{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/perjury-act-1911/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/perjury-act-1911/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo5/1-2/6",
  "legislation_title": "Perjury Act 1911",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/perjury-act-1911",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "False statements on oath made otherwise than in a judicial proceeding.",
  "text": "If any person—\n(1) being required or authorised by law to make any statement on oath for any purpose, and being lawfully sworn (otherwise than in a judicial proceeding) wilfully makes a statement which is material for that purpose and which he knows to be false or does not believe to be true; or\n(2) wilfully uses any false affidavit for the purposes of the Bills of Sale Act 1878, as amended by any subsequent enactment,\nhe shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and, on conviction thereof on indictment, shall be liable to penal servitude for a term not exceeding seven years or to imprisonment, . . . for a term not exceeding two years, or to a fine or to both such penal servitude or imprisonment and fine.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words omitted by virtue of Criminal Justice Act 1948 (c. 58), s. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1878 c. 31."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/1-2/6/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:13:03.703020+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."
}