{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/perjury-northern-ireland-order-1979/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/perjury-northern-ireland-order-1979/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1979/1714",
  "legislation_title": "Perjury (Northern Ireland) Order 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/perjury-northern-ireland-order-1979",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "False unsworn statements under the Evidence (Proceedings in Other Jurisdictions) Act 1975",
  "text": "Any person who, in giving any testimony (either orally or in writing) otherwise than on oath, where required to do so by an order under section 2 of the Evidence (Proceedings in Other Jurisdictions) Act 1975 1975 c.34, makes a statement—\n(a) which he knows to be false in a material particular, or\n(b) which is false in a material particular and which he does not believe to be true,\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": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1979/1714/article/6",
    "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."
}