Chapter 201
PREVENTION OF BRIBERY
To make further and better provision for the prevention of bribery and for purposes necessary
thereto or connected therewith.
Originally
102 of 1970.
[14th May, 1971.]
L.N. 58/71.
"C"
1.
PART I
PRELIMINARY
This Ordinance may be cited as the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance, and shall come into operation on a day to be appointed by the Governor by notice in the Gazette.
2. (1) In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires— "advantage" means-
(a) any gift, loan, fee, reward or commission consisting of money or of any valuable
security or of other property or interest in property of any description;
(b) any office, employment or contract;
(c) any payment, release, discharge or liquidation of any loan, obligation or other liability,
whether in whole or in part;
(d) any other service, or favour (other than entertainment), including protection from any penalty or disability incurred or apprehended or from any action or proceedings of a disciplinary, civil or criminal nature, whether or not already instituted;
(e) the exercise or forbearance from the exercise of any right or any power or duty; and (ƒ) any offer, undertaking or promise, whether conditional or unconditional, of any advantage within the meaning of any of the preceding paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e);
"agent" includes a public servant and any person employed by or acting for another; "banker's books" means—
(a) any ledger, day book, cash book, account book or other book whatsoever, and (b) any computer records,
used in the ordinary business of a bank;
"child" includes a child who is illegitimate or adopted, a foster child and a step-child; "company books" means the annual return and balance sheets and any ledger, day book, cash book, account book, bank book or other book used in the ordinary business of a company; "court" includes a magistrate hearing proceedings with a view to committal for trial under
section 85 of the Magistrates Ordinance;
"Crown servant" means a person holding an office of emolument, whether permanent or
temporary, under the Crown in right of the Government;
"Director" means the person appointed by the Governor to be in charge of the Anti-Corruption
Office;
"entertainment" means the provision of food or drink, for consumption on the occasion when it is provided, and of any other entertainment connected with, or provided at the same time as, such provisions;
"parents" includes parents-in-law and step-parents;
"principal" includes—
(a) an employer;
(b) a beneficiary under a trust;
(c) a trust estate as though it were a person;
(d) any person beneficially interested in the estate of a deceased person;
(e) the estate of a deceased person as though it were a person; and
(ƒ) in the case of an employee of a public body, the public body;
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Short title and commencement.
Interpretation.