Section 177
Furnishing false information
of Penal Code
Whoever, being legally bound to furnish information on any subject to any public seluant,asmd@mifurnishes, as true, information on thesubjut which he knows or has reason to believe to be false. shall be punished -
(a)
with imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months. fine not exceeding $4,000 or both; or
(b)
if the information which he is legally bound to give respects the commission of an offence. or is required for the purpose of preventing the commission of an offence, or in order to the apprehension of an offender, with imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years, fine or both.
(u)
A. a landholder, knowing of the commission of a murder within the limits of his estates, wilfully misinforms the Magistrate of the district that the death has occurred by accident in consequence of the bite of a snake. A is guilty of the offence defined in this section.
(6)
A, a police officer, knowing that a considerable body of strangers has passed through his village in order to commit a gang-robbery in the house of Z a wealthy merchant residing in a neighbouring place, and being bound to give information of the above fact to his superior officer, wilfully misinforms that officer that a body of suspicious characters passed through the village with a view to commit gang-robbery in a certain distant place in a different direction. Here, A is guilty of the offence in the latter part of this section.
Explanation -
In section 176 and in this section, the word "offence"
includes any act committed at any place outside Brunei Darussalam, which, if committed in Brunei Darussalam, would be punishable under sections 302,
304, 382, 392, 393, 394, 395. 396, 397, 398. 399, 402, 435, 436. 449, 450,
457,458,459 and 460, and the word "offender" includes any person who is alleged to have been guilty of any such act.