Perjury Act 1728
The Perjury Act 1728 was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain.
So much of the act as related to the stealing or taking by robbery any orders or other securities therein enumerated was repealed by section 1 of the 7 & 8 Geo 4 c 27.
The whole act, except so far as it related to perjury and subornation of perjury, was repealed by of the Forgery Act 1830.
Section 5 of the act was repealed by section 1 of, and the schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1871.
The whole act was repealed as far as it applied to England and Wales on 1 January 1912 by section 19 of the Perjury Act 1911, section 19
Section 2 - Penalty for perjury and subornation of perjury
The act applied only to perjury in judicial proceedings. Section 2 provided that perjury and subornation of perjury were punishable with imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven years.William Oldnall Russell said section 2 was the important statute relating to the punishment of perjury.
Castro v R was decided under section 2.