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Petrojam Limited Integrity Commission October 2019 Page 480 of 486 willfully makes a statement material in that proceeding, which he knows to be false or does not believe to be true, shall be guilty of the misdemeanour of perjury, and on conviction on indictment thereof liable to imprisonment with hard labour for any term not exceeding seven years, or to a fine, or to both such imprisonment and fine. (2) The expression “judicial proceeding” includes a proceeding before any court, tribunal, or person having by law power to hear, receive, and examine evidence on oath. (3) Where a statement made for the purposes of a judicial proceeding is not made before the tribunal itself, but is made on oath before a person authorized by law to administer an oath to the person who makes the statement, and to record or section, be treated as having been made in a judicial proceeding. (4) A statement made by a person lawfully sworn in the Island for the purposes of a judicial proceeding- (a) in another part of the Commonwealth; or (b) in a tribunal lawfully constituted in any place by sea or land outside the Commonwealth, shall, for the purposes of this section, be treated as a statement made in a judicial proceeding in the Island.