{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/perjury-northern-ireland-order-1979/article-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/perjury-northern-ireland-order-1979/article-10.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1979/1714",
  "legislation_title": "Perjury (Northern Ireland) Order 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/perjury-northern-ireland-order-1979",
  "path": "article/10",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "False statutory declarations and other false unsworn statements",
  "text": "Any person who knowingly and wilfully makes (otherwise than on oath) a statement which is false in a material particular—\n(a) in a statutory declaration; or\n(b) in an abstract, account, balance sheet, book, certificate, declaration, entry, estimate, inventory, notice, report, return, or other document which he is authorised or required to make, attest, or verify, by any enactment; or\n(c) in any oral declaration or oral answer which he is required to make by, under, or in pursuance of, any enactment,\nshall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or to a fine, or to both.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Art. 10 applied (31.8.2013) by The Electricity and Gas (Market Integrity and Transparency) (Enforcement etc.) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013 (S.R. 2013/208), regs. 1, 15(3)(b) (with Sch. 1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1979/1714/article/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:52:40.660542+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."
}