[Subsection inserted by section 282 of Act 23 of 2004] (5) No indictment, summons or charge alleging the commission of a crime mentioned in subsection (4) shall be held to be defective on account of a failure to mention the section of the Criminal Law Code under which the crime is set forth. [Subsection inserted by section 282 of Act 23 of 2004] 147 Sufficient to allege dates between which thefts took place It shall be lawful in any indictment, summons or charge in respect of theft to allege that the property stated to have been stolen was taken at several different times between any two certain days named in the indictment, summons or charge, and upon such an indictment, summons or charge, proof may be given of the theft of such property upon any day or days between the two certain days aforesaid. 148 Indictment may charge general deficiency In an indictment, summons or charge in respect of the theft of money, or in respect of the theft of any property by a person entrusted with the custody or care of such property, the accused may be charged and proceeded against for the amount of a general deficiency, notwithstanding that such general deficiency is made up of any number of specific sums of money or of any number of specific articles or of a sum of money representing the value of specific articles, the taking of which extended over any space of time. 149 Not necessary to specify particular coin or bank-note stolen In any indictment, summons or charge in which it is necessary to make averment as to any money or any bank-note, it shall be sufficient to describe such money or bank-note simply as money, without specifying any particular coin or bank-note, and such averment, so far as regards the description of the property, shall be sustained by proof of any amount of coin or of any bank-note, although the particular species of coin of which such amount was composed or the particular nature of the bank-note is not proved, and in cases of money or bank-notes obtained by false pretences or by any other unlawful act, by proof that the offender obtained any coin or any banknote or any portion of the value thereof, although such coin or bank-note may have been delivered to him in order that some part of the value thereof should be returned to the party delivering the same or to any other person, and such part has been returned accordingly. 150 Indictments for giving false evidence; and making of conflicting statements on oath in judicial proceedings (1) In an indictment, summons or charge in respect of an offence which relates to taking or administering an oath or affirmation, or to giving false testimony, or to making a false statement on solemn declaration or othe rwise, or to procuring the giving of false testimony or the making of a false statement, it shall not be necessary to set forth the words of the oath or affirmation or testimony or statement, but it shall be sufficient to set forth the purport thereof or so much of the purport thereof as is material, nor shall it be necessary to allege in any such indictment, summons or charge or to prove at the trial that the false testimony or statement was material to any issue to be tried in the proceedings in connection wherewith it was given or made, or that it was to the prejudice of any person: Provided that it shall be a sufficient defence on such trial to prove that the false testimony or statement was not material to any such issue and was not to the prejudice of any person. (2) In an indictment, summons or charge which relates to giving false testimony or procuring or attempting to procure the giving of false testimony, it shall not be necessary to allege the jurisdiction or state the nature of the authority of the court or tribunal before which or the officer before whom the false testimony was given or intended or proposed to be given. (3) Any person who has made any statement on oath, whether orally or in writing, and thereafter on the same or another oath makes another statement, whether orally or in writing, which is in substantial conflict with any such first-mentioned statement shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level seven or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding two years or to both such fine and such imprisonment. [Subsection amended by section 4 of Act 22 of 2001.] (4) It shall not be necessary to allege in any indictment, summons or charge in respect of an offence in terms of subsection (3) or to establish at the trial which of the conflicting statements was false or that either statement was material to any issue to be tried in the proceedings in connection wherewith it was made, but it shall be a sufficient defence on any such trial to prove— (a) that the accused when he made each statement believed it to be true; or (b) that neither statement was material to any such issue as aforesaid; or (c) that one statement was true and that the other statement, though false, was not material to any such issue as aforesaid. (5) Subsections (1) and (2) shall apply to any indictment, summons or charge in respect of an offence in terms of subsection (3).