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Criminal Law (Consolidation) (Scotland) Act 1995
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Criminal Law (Consolidation) (Scotland) Act 1995, Section 44 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 27 April 2024. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
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- s. 44(2)(b) (c) words inserted by 2010 asp 13 s. 200(2)(b)
- s. 44(3)(a) words inserted by 2010 asp 13 s. 200(2)(b)
- s. 44(4) words inserted by 2010 asp 13 s. 200(2)(b)
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Whole provisions yet to be inserted into this Act (including any effects on those provisions):
- s. 30(8) added by 2010 asp 13 s. 200(2)(a)
- s. 45(6) added by 2010 asp 13 s. 200(2)(c)
- s. 46(5) added by 2010 asp 13 s. 200(2)(d)(ii)
44 False statements and declarations.S
(1)Any person who—
(a)is required or authorised by law to make a statement on oath for any purpose; and
(b)being lawfully sworn, wilfully makes a statement which is material for that purpose and which he knows to be false or does not believe to be true,
shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or to a fine or to both such fine and imprisonment.
(2)Any person who knowingly and wilfully makes, otherwise than on oath, a statement false in a material particular, and the statement is made—
(a)in a statutory declaration; or
(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, under or in pursuance of any public general Act of Parliament for the time being in force; or
(c)in any oral declaration or oral answer which he is authorised or required to make by, under or in pursuance of any public general Act of Parliament for the time being in force; or
(d)in any declaration not falling within paragraph (a), (b), or (c) above which he is required to make by an order under section 2 of the M1Evidence (Proceedings in Other Jurisdictions) Act 1975,
shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to a fine or to both such fine and imprisonment.
(3)Any person who—
(a)procures or attempts to procure himself to be registered on any register or roll kept under or in pursuance of any Act of Parliament for the time being in force of persons qualified by law to practise any vocation or calling; or
(b)procures or attempts to procure a certificate of the registration of any person on any such register or roll,
by wilfully making or producing or causing to be made or produced either verbally or in writing, any declaration, certificate or representation which he knows to be false or fraudulent, shall be guilty of an offence and be liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or to a fine or to both such fine and imprisonment.
(4)Subsection (2) above applies to any oral statement made for the purpose of any entry in a register kept in pursuance of any Act of Parliament as it applies to the statements mentioned in that subsection.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 44(1) modified (31.7.2017) by The Criminal Justice (European Investigation Order) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/730), regs. 1(1), 36(7)(c), 37(6)(c) (with regs. 3, 36(1), 37(1))
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