Traditional Knowledge Laws: Norway

Consequences of Non-Compliance

Section 166

Any person who gives false testimony in court or before a notary public or in any statement presented to the court by him as a party to or legal representative in a case, or who orally or in writing gives false testimony to any public authority in a case in which he is obliged to give such testimony, or where the testimony is intended to serve as proof, shall be liable to fines or imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years. The same penalty shall apply to any person who causes testimony known to him to be false to be given by another person in any of the above-mentioned cases, or who aids and abets thereto.