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[CITE: 10USC931]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
              CHAPTER 47--UNIFORM CODE OF MILITARY JUSTICE
 
                     SUBCHAPTER X--PUNITIVE ARTICLES
 
Sec. 931. Art. 131. Perjury

    Any person subject to this chapter who in a judicial proceeding or 
in a course of justice willfully and corruptly--
        (1) upon a lawful oath or in any form allowed by law to be 
    substituted for an oath, gives any false testimony material to the 
    issue or matter of inquiry; or
        (2) in any declaration, certificate, verification, or statement 
    under penalty of perjury as permitted under section 1746 of title 
    28, subscribes any false statement material to the issue or matter 
    of inquiry;

is guilty of perjury and shall be punished as a court-martial may 
direct.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 75; Pub. L. 94-550, Sec. 3, Oct. 18, 
1976, 90 Stat. 2535; Pub. L. 97-295, Sec. 1(13), Oct. 12, 1982, 96 Stat. 
1289.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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            Revised section                      Source (U.S. Code)            
   Source (Statutes at Large)
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931...................................  50:725.                              Ma
y 5, 1950, ch. 169, Sec.  1 (Art.
                                                                              1
31), 64 Stat. 142.
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    The words ``in a'' are inserted before the words ``course of 
justice''.


                               Amendments

    1982--Par. (2). Pub. L. 97-295 struck out ``United States Code,'' 
after ``title 28,''.
    1976--Pub. L. 94-550 divided existing provisions into an 
introductory phrase, par. (1), and a closing phrase, and added par. (2).

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 937 of this title.
