{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/perjury-northern-ireland-order-1979/article-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/perjury-northern-ireland-order-1979/article-13.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1979/1714",
  "legislation_title": "Perjury (Northern Ireland) Order 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/perjury-northern-ireland-order-1979",
  "path": "article/13",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Power to direct a prosecution for perjury",
  "text": "(1) Where any of the following authorities, namely, a judge of, or person presiding in, a court of record, or a magistrates' court, is of opinion that any person has, in the course of a proceeding before that authority, been guilty of perjury, the authority may—\n(a) order the prosecution of that person for the perjury where there appears to be reasonable cause for such a prosecution, and\n(b) commit him, or admit him to bail, to take his trial at the proper court, and\n(c) require any person to enter into a recognizance to prosecute or to give evidence against the person whose prosecution is so ordered, and\n(d) give the person so bound to prosecute a certificate of the making of the order for the prosecution,\nfor which certificate no charge shall be made.\n(2) An order made or a certificate given under paragraph (1) shall not be given in evidence for the purpose or in the course of any trial of a prosecution resulting therefrom.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1979/1714/article/13",
    "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."
}