{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/perjury-northern-ireland-order-1979/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/perjury-northern-ireland-order-1979/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1979/1714",
  "legislation_title": "Perjury (Northern Ireland) Order 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/perjury-northern-ireland-order-1979",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "False written statements tendered in evidence",
  "text": "(1) Any person who in a written statement tendered in evidence in criminal proceedings by virtue of—\n(a) section 1 of the Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (Northern Ireland) 1968 1968 c.28, or\n(b) Article 33 of the Magistrates' Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981\nwilfully makes a statement material in those proceedings which he knows to be false, or does not believe to be true, shall be guilty of an offence.\n(2) Any person who in a written statement made in Northern Ireland and tendered in evidence in the Republic of Ireland in any criminal proceedings wilfully makes a statement material in those proceedings which he knows to be false, or does not believe to be true, shall be guilty of an offence.\n(3) A person guilty of an offence under paragraph (1) or (2) shall be liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or to a fine, or to both.\n(4) This Article is without prejudice to Article 3, and paragraph (1) applies whether the written statement is made in Northern Ireland, Great Britain or the Republic of Ireland.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1981 NI 26"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1979/1714/article/4",
    "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."
}