Crimes and Penalties Law

Article 306 — Article (306)

Book Two: Crimes and their Penalties · Part Two: Forgery of Documents: Article (251) · Chapter One: False Testimony, Perjury and Abstention from Testifying: Article (302)

A penalty of imprisonment for a period not less than one year and not exceeding (5) five years shall be imposed on any expert, translator or fact-finder appointed by the judicial authority or administrative authority in a civil or criminal lawsuit, who knowingly confirms a matter contrary to the truth and knowingly interprets the same inaccurately. The penalty shall be temporary imprisonment be imposed if the assignment entrusted to the aforementioned categories is related to a felony. The aforementioned categories shall be deprived from re-assuming the same assignments which had been entrusted thereto, and they shall be subject to the provisions of Article (304) of this Law.

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