Penal Code of Tanzania - Criminal Defense Wiki

(a) whether or not the testimony is given on oath;
(b) that the person giving the testimony and bound to speak the truth assents to the forms
and ceremonies actually used in administering the oath or in otherwise binding him;
(c) whether the false testimony is given orally or in writing;
(d) whether the court or tribunal is properly constituted or is held in the proper place or not
if it actually acts as a court or tribunal in the proceeding in which the testimony is given;
(e) whether the person who gives the testimony is a competent witness or not, or whether
the testimony is admissible in the proceedings or not.
Subornation of perjury
(2) Any person who, aids, abets, counsels, procures or suborns another person to commit
perjury is guilty of subornation of perjury.
103. False statements by interpreters
Any person who, having been lawfully sworn as an interpreter in a judicial proceeding, wilfully
makes a statement material in that proceeding which he knows to be false, or does not believe
to be true, is guilty of perjury.
104. Punishment for perjury
A person who commits perjury or suborns perjury is liable to imprisonment for seven years.
105. Evidence on charge of perjury
A court shall not convict a person of perjury or of subornation of perjury solely upon the
evidence of one witness as to the falsity of any statement alleged to be false.
106. Fabricating evidence
Any persons who, with intent to mislead any tribunal in any judicial proceeding–
(a) fabricates evidence by any means other than perjury or subornation of perjury; or
(b) knowingly makes use of the fabricated evidence,
is guilty of an offence and is liable to imprisonment for seven years.
107. False swearing
Any person who swears falsely or makes a false affirmation or declaration before a person
authorised to administer an oath or take a declaration upon a matter of public concern under
such circumstances that the false swearing or declaration, if done in a judicial proceeding,