1. If the circumstances of perjury in civil proceedings are minor, a fine or detention shall be imposed; If the case constitutes a crime, criminal responsibility shall be investigated according to law;
2. Witnesses, expert witnesses, recorders and translators who commit perjury in criminal proceedings shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention; If the circumstances are serious, they shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than seven years.
What is the standard for filing perjury?
The criteria for bringing perjury are as follows:
1. Causing others to be subjected to criminal punishment or heavy sentence due to misdemeanor;
2, can lead to criminals to escape criminal punishment or felony light sentence;
3, has caused unjust, false and wrong cases or misjudged cases;
4. State functionaries use their positions to destroy, conceal criminal evidence or create perjury for economic criminals;
5. Because of his behavior, others commit suicide or are insane.
Legal basis: Article 114th of the Civil Procedure Law of People's Republic of China (PRC).
If a litigant participant or other person commits one of the following acts, the people's court may impose a fine or detention according to the seriousness of the case; If the case constitutes a crime, criminal responsibility shall be investigated according to law:
(1) Forging or destroying important evidence, which hinders the people's court from hearing a case;
(2) using violence, threats or bribes to prevent witnesses from testifying or instigating, bribing or coercing others to commit perjury;
(3) Hiding, transferring, selling off or destroying the property that has been sealed up or detained, or transferring the property that has been counted and ordered to be kept;
(4) Insulting, slandering, framing, beating or retaliating against judicial personnel, participants in litigation, witnesses, translators, expert witnesses, inspectors and assisting executors;
(5) Obstructing judicial personnel from performing their duties by violence, threat or other means;
(6) Refusing to perform a legally effective judgment or ruling of the people's court.
The people's court may impose a fine or detention on a unit that commits one of the acts listed in the preceding paragraph; If a crime is constituted, criminal responsibility shall be investigated according to law.