Registry of Deeds (Ireland) Act 1822

Penalty on forging Memorials and Certificates, and for swearing falsely.

VII. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That if any Person or Persons shall at any Time forge or counterfeit any such Memorial or Certificate as are herein-before mentioned, and be thereof lawfully convicted, such Person or Persons shall incur and be liable to such Pains and Penalties as in and by an Act of Parliament made in Ireland in the Twenty-eighth Year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, intituled An Act against forging Evidence, are imposed upon such like Offenders as therein mentioned; and if any Person or Persons shall at any Time wilfully swear falsely before any such Extraordinary Commissioner in any of the Cases aforesaid, and be thereof lawfully convicted, such Person or Persons shall incur and be liable to the same Pains and Penalties as if such Oath had been made in any of the Courts of Record in Great Britain or Ireland.