CRIMINAL CODE [CAP. 9. 59 98. Where any of the crimes referred to in article 96 be accompanied with public violence, the punishment shall be imprisonment for a term from two to five years. Assault or resistance accompanied with public violence. Amended by: XLIX. 1981.4. 99. No punishment shall be awarded for the mere act of the assault or resistance mentioned in articles 96 and 98 against any person who, although he shall have attempted to commence or shall have actually commenced to act, shall, at the first warning given by the person assaulted or to whom resistance is offered, or by any public authority, desist from the further commission of the crime. Exemption from punishment in case of desistance. 99A. (1) The following provisions shall apply to the offences under this sub-title. General provisions. Added by: V. 2014.8. (2) The provisions of article 21 shall not apply in respect of any person convicted of an offence under this sub-title. (3) Any fine (multa) to which the person convicted has been sentenced to pay may be recovered as a civil debt and the sentence of the Court shall constitute an executive title for all intents and purposes of the Code of Organization and Civil Procedure. Cap. 12. Sub-title III OF CALUMNIOUS ACCUSATIONS, OF P ERJURY AND OF FALSE S WEARING Amended by: IV. 1856.11. 100. In this sub-title "criminal proceedings" includes the inquiry referred to in Sub-title II of Title II of Part I of Book Second of this Code and any proceedings under the Malta Armed Forces Act. Interpretation. Added by: XXI. 1971.13. Substituted by: III. 2002.21. Cap. 220. 101. (1) Whosoever, with intent to harm any person, shall accuse such person before a competent authority with an offence of which he knows such person to be innocent, shall, for the mere fact of having made the accusation, on conviction, be liable - Calumnious accusations. Amended by: IX.1859.8; V.1956.15; XLIX.1981.4. (a) to imprisonment for a term from thirteen to eighteen months, if the false accusation be in respect of a crime liable to a punishment higher than the punishment of imprisonment for a term of two years; (b) to imprisonment for a term from six to nine months, if the false accusation be in respect of a crime liable to a punishment not higher than the punishment of imprisonment for a term of two years, but not liable to the punishments established for contraventions; (c) to imprisonment for a term from three days to three months, if the false accusation be in respect of any other offence. (2) Where the crime is committed with intent to extort money or other effects, the punishment shall be increased by one degree. Aggravating circumstances.