On the trial of any person

(a) for perjury, or

(b) for procuring or suborning the commission of perjury,

the fact of a former trial before the court shall be sufficiently proved by the production of a certificate containing the substance and effect (omitting the formal parts) of the proceedings at the former trial purporting to be signed by the Registrar or other person having custody of the

records of the court without proof of the signature or official status of the person appearing to have signed the certificate.

100. For the purposes of this Part, the form and ceremonies used in administering an oath are immaterial if the court or the person before whom the oath is taken has power to administer an oath for the purpose of verifying the statement in question and if the oath has been administered in a form and with the ceremonies which the person taking the oath has accepted without objection or has declared to be binding on him.

101. Any person who asks, receives or obtains, or agrees or attempts to receive or obtain, any property or benefit of any kind for himself or any other person upon any agreement or understanding that he will compound or conceal an offence or will abstain from, discontinue or delay, a prosecution for an offence, or will withhold any evidence thereof, commits an offence and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years.

102. Any person who

(a) publicly offers a reward for the return of any property which has been stolen or lost, and in the offer makes use of any words purporting that no question will be asked, or that the person producing such property will not be seized or molested,

(b) publicly offers to return to any person who may have bought or advanced money by way of loan upon an stolen or lost property the money so paid or advanced, or nay other sum of money or reward for the return of such property, or

(c) prints or publishes an offer referred to under paragraph (a) or (b)

commits an offence and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or both.

103. (1) Subject to subsection (2), any person who, by force, rescues or attempts to rescue form lawful custody any person,

(a) who is under sentence of imprisonment for life or charged with an offence punishable with imprisonment for life commits an offence and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for life.

(b) who is imprisoned on a charge or under sentence for an offence other that those specified in paragraph (a) commits an offence and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven years.

(c) in any other case, commits an offence and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years.

(2) If the person rescued is in the custody of a private person, the offender must have been aware of the fact that the person rescued is in lawful custody.

104. Any person who, being in lawful custody, escapes from such custody commits an offence and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years.

105. Any person who, having another person in his custody, intentionally or negligently permits him to escape, commits an offence and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years.

106. (1) A person commits an offence and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven years, if he

(a) aids a prisoner in escaping or attempting to escape from awful custody, or

(b) conveys anything or causes anything to be conveyed into a prison with intent to facilitate the escape of a prisoner.

(2) A person who harbours or assists in any manner another person in harbouring a prisoner who has escaped from lawful custody, commits an offence and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding fourteen years.

107. Any person who, when any property has been attached or taken under the process or authority of a court, knowingly and with intent to hinder or defeat the attachment process receives, removes, retains, conceals or disposes of such property, commits an offence and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years.

108. Any person who willfully obstructs or resists any person lawfully charged with the execution of an order or warrant of a court, commits an offence and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years.

109. Any person who, being employed in the public service, in the discharge of his duties, commits any fraud or breach of trust affecting the public, whether such fraud or breach of trust would have been criminal or not if committed against a private person, commits an offence and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years.

110. A person who gives to any person employed in the public service any information in the truth of which he does not believe, intending thereby to cause, or knowing it to be likely that he will thereby cause, such person employed in the public service

(a) to do or omit anything which such person employed in the public service ought not to do or omit if the true state of facts respecting which such information is given were known to him, or

(b) to use lawful power of such person employed in the public service to the injury or annoyance of any person, commits an offence and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, or both.

PART VI

OFFENCES RELATING TO RELIGION

111. Any person who destroys, damages or defiles any place of worship or any object which is held sacred by any group or class of persons with the intention thereby of insulting the religion of those persons or with the knowledge that any group or class of persons is likely to consider such destruction, damage or defilement as an insult to their religion, commits an offence and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to s fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, or both.

112. Any person who voluntarily causes disturbance to any assembly lawfully engaged in the performance of religious worship or ceremony, commits an offence and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to s fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, or both.

113. Any person who, with the intention of wounding the religious feelings of any other person, writes any word, or utters any word or makes any sound in the hearing of any other person or makes any gesture or places an object in the sight of any other person, commits an offence and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to s fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or both.

114 Any person who unlawfully hinders the burial of the dead body of any person, or, without lawful authority in that behalf, disinters, dissects or harm the dead body of any person, or being under a duty to cause the dead body of any person to be buried, fails to perform such duty, commits an offence and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to s fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, or both.

115. (1) Any person who, with the intention of wounding the feelings of any other person or of insulting the religion of any person, or with the knowledge that the feelings f any person are likely to be wounded or that any person is likely to be wounded or that any person is likely to consider that his religion has been insulted thereby, trespasses in any place of worship or of sculpture, or which is set apart for the performance of funeral rites or for the burial or depository of the remains of the dead, or who offers any assembled for any funeral ceremony commits an offence and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, or both.

(2) Any person who willfully removes, damages or interferes with in any way flowers, candles, wreaths, tombstones or any other thing whatsoever placed on or near a grave in memory or respect of or as a tribute to the dead, commits an offence and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, or both.

(3) For the purposes of this section, any flowers, candles, wreaths, tombstones or other thing placed on or near a grave shall, until the contrary be proved, be deemed to have been so placed in memory or respect of or as tribute to the dead.

PART VII