Perjury Act 1728
The Perjury Act 1728 was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain.
So much of this Act as related to the stealing or taking by robbery any orders or other securities therein enumerated was repealed by section 1 of the 7 & 8 Geo 4 c 27..
The Act, except so far as it related to perjury and subornation of perjury, was repealed by of the Forgery Act 1830..
Section 5 was repealed by section 1 of, and the Schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1871.
The Act was repealed as far as it applied to England on 1 January 1912.
The Act applied only to perjury in judicial proceedings. Section 2 provided that perjury and subornation of perjury were punishable with imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven years.
Section 6 provided for the Act to expire. The Act was revived and made perpetual by the 9 Geo 2 c 18.
