Public Works (Ireland) Act, 1831

Persons swearing falsely, or making false affirmation or affidavit, guilty of perjury.

93. If any person or persons, upon examination upon oath or affirmation before the said commissioners for the execution of this Act respectively, or if any person or persons making any such affidavit or deposition as before mentioned, shall wilfully and corruptly give false evidence, or shall in such affidavit or deposition wilfully and corruptly swear, affirm, or allege any matter or thing which shall be false or untrue, every such person or persons so offending, and being thereof duly convicted, shall be and is and are hereby declared to be subject and liable to such pains and penalties as by any law now in force in Ireland persons convicted of wilful and corrupt perjury are subject and liable to.