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(a) not being a judicial officer, assumes to act as a judicial officer except in circumstances
of a customary arbitration or settlement by the tribal elders in any matter arising out of
any common assault or other offence of a personal or private nature or any minor civil
dispute at customary law if such arbitration or settlement is conducted in the manner
recognised by customary law;
(b) without authority assumes to act as a person having authority by law to administer an
oath or take a solemn declaration or affirmation or affidavit or to do any other act of a
public nature which can only be done by persons authorised by law to do so; or
(c) represents himself to be a person authorised by law to sign a document testifying to
the contents of any register or record kept by lawful authority, or testifying to any fact
or event, and signs such document as being so authorised, when he is not, and knows
that he is not, in fact, so authorised,
is guilty of an offence.
100. Personating public officers
Any person who–
(a) personates any person employed in the public service on an occasion when the latter
is required to do any act or attend in any place by virtue of his employment; or
(b) falsely represents himself to be a person employed in the public service, and assumes
to do any act or to attend in any place for the purpose of doing any act by virtue of
such employment,
is guilty of an offence.
101. Threat of injury to persons employed in public service
Whoever holds out any threat of injury to any person employed in the public service, or to
any person in whom he believes that person to be interested, for the purpose of inducing that
person to do any act, or to forbear or delay to do any act connected with the exercise of the
public functions of that person is guilty of an offence.
CHAPTER XI
OFFENCES RELATING TO THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE (ss 102-114A)
102. Perjury and subornation of Perjury
(1) Any person who, in any judicial proceedings, or for the purpose of instituting any judicial
proceeding, knowingly gives false testimony touching any matter which is material to any
question then depending in that proceeding or intended to be raised in that proceeding, is guilty
of perjury and it is immaterial–