A person who commits an offence under Articles 175-178 and who corrects or withdraws his perjury or false statement, during the same proceeding before the perjury or false statement has had any harmful impact,
Penal Code
2015 English source edition · Current applicability not established.
English-language 2015 Ministry of Justice edition. Refworld catalogues this English expression as an unofficial translation; Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation.
Article 179
Mitigated Perjury and False Testimony · Preserved transcription; page attribution imported from the source collection. Verify against the original.
is guilty of mitigated perjury and false testimony, a Class 3 petty offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not more than 1 month, or a fine of 500 – 5,000 Nakfas, to be set in intervals of 500 Nakfas.
If the Court believes that the circumstances under which the offence under sub-Article (1) have been committed deserve no punishment or where the correction or withdrawal was prompted by honesty, the Court may impose no penalty (Article 66) and may give a sentence of reprimand accompanied by a warning for the future.