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Penal Code · 2021 Revised Edition · Chapter XI · False Evidence and Offences Against Public Justice
Penal Code · 2021 Revised Edition · Chapter XI · False Evidence and Offences Against Public Justice
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
Whoever -
fraudulently accepts, receives or claims any property or any interest therein, knowing that he has no right or rightful claim to such property or interest; or
practises any deception touching any right to any property or any interest therein, intending thereby to prevent that property or interest therein from being taken -
as a forfeiture or in satisfaction of a fine, under a sentence which has been pronounced, or which he knows to be likely to be pronounced, by a Court of
Justice or other competent authority; or
in execution of a decree or order which has been made, or which he knows to be likely to be made by a Court of Justice in a civil suit, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years, fine or both.
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