(1) A person commits the offence of perjury if, in any written or verbal statement made or verified by him or her upon oath before a Court or public officer, he or she states anything which he or she knows to be false, or which he or she has no reason to believe to be true, with intent to defeat, obstruct or pervert the course of justice or the execution of the law, or with intent to defraud or injure the person.