Prevention of Corruption Act · s 10

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s 10Bribery of member of legislature

Any person who offers to a member of the Legislative Council, the

Council of Ministers or the Privy Council, or, being a member thereof, solicits or accepts, any gratification as an inducement or reward for his doing or forbearing to do any act or for showing or forbearing to show any favour or disfavour in his capacity as member, notwithstanding that —

(a)

the member did not have the power, right or opportunity so to do, show or forbear;

(b)

the member did not in fact so do, show or forbear; or

(c)

the inducement or reward was not in relation to the affairs of the Legislative Council, the Council of Ministers or the Privy

Council, as the case may be, is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine of $30,000 and imprisonment for 7 years.