REDACTED 2 - IC Petrojam Investigation - Recruitment and Parties October 18, 2019 final

Petrojam Limited Integrity Commission October 2019 Page 481 of 486 (5) The question whether a statement on which perjury is assigned was material is a question of law to be determined by the court of trial. Section 8 of the Perjury Act states that: “ Every person who knowingly and willfully makes “otherwise than on oath” a false statement in a material particular, and the statement is made – (d) in a voluntary declaration; (e) 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 any enactment for the time being in force; … (f) in any oral declaration or oral answer which he is required to make by, under, or in pursuance of any enactment for the time being in force, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and liable on conviction on indictment thereof to imprisonment with hard labour for nay term not exceeding two years, or to a fine , or to both such imprisonment and fine ”.