(a) called as a
witness in any Court or before any Judge or Magistrate or other person
authorised to administer an oath, whether in a civil or criminal proceeding,
or
(b) having to make a statement in any information, complaint, or
proceeding in any Court or before any Judge or Magistrate, or
(c) required or
desired to make an affidavit or deposition,
objects to take an oath, or is
reasonably objected to as incompetent to take an oath, or appears to such
Court or Judge or Magistrate or person so authorised incompetent to take an
oath, the person may in lieu of such oath--
(i) when so called as a witness
make a declaration in the form in the Sixth Schedule, or
(ii) in any other
case make a solemn affirmation in the form in the Seventh Schedule.
(2)
Whosoever, having made such declaration or affirmation, wilfully gives any
false evidence before such Court, Judge or Magistrate, or person so
authorised, or makes any false statement in such information, complaint,
proceeding, affidavit, or deposition, knowing the same to be false, shall be
deemed guilty of perjury if the evidence or statement, had it been on oath,
would by law have been perjury.
