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13.—(1) Where any of the following authorities, namely, a judge of, or person presiding in, a court of record, or a magistrates' court, is of opinion that any person has, in the course of a proceeding before that authority, been guilty of perjury, the authority may—
(a)order the prosecution of that person for the perjury where there appears to be reasonable cause for such a prosecution, and
(b)commit him, or admit him to bail, to take his trial at the proper court, and
(c)require any person to enter into a recognizance to prosecute or to give evidence against the person whose prosecution is so ordered, and
(d)give the person so bound to prosecute a certificate of the making of the order for the prosecution,
for which certificate no charge shall be made.
(2) An order made or a certificate given under paragraph (1) shall not be given in evidence for the purpose or in the course of any trial of a prosecution resulting therefrom.
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