Cap. 5 Ed. 1978 Parliamentary Powers and Privileges
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(h) utters or publishes any false or scandalous slander or libel on
*Parliament or upon any member in his capacity as such; or (i) attempts, directly or indirectly, by fraud, or by threats or intimidation of any kind, to influence a member in his vote, opinion, judgement or action, upon any question arising in the *House of Representatives or the Senate or in a committee, or to induce him to absent himself from the *House of Representatives or the Senate or any committee; or (j) threatens or assaults a member or an officer of *Parliament on account
of his conduct as such member or officer; or
(k) gives false evidence (in the case of witnesses not examined on oath), or is guilty of misconduct as a witness before the *House of Representatives or the Senate or a committee; or
(1) destroys any document which has been ordered to be produced before
the House of Representatives or the Senate or a committee; or (m) abstracts any record or other document from the custody of the Clerk *to either House, or falsifies or improperly alters any records or documents presented to the *House of Representatives or the Senate or any committee; or
(n) endeavours, directly or indirectly, to deter or hinder any person from appearing or giving evidence before the *House of Representatives or the Senate or a committee; or
(0) tampers with a witness in regard to evidence to be given by him before
the "House of Representatives or the Senate or a committee; or (p) threatens or in any way punishes, damnifies or injuries, or attempts to punish, damnify or injure, any person for having given evidence before the House of Representatives or the Senate or a committee, or on account of the evidence which he has given before the *House of Representatives or the Senate or a committee, or (q) publishes any evidence taken by, or document presented to, a committee where such evidence has been taken or such document presented within closed doors, and where its publication has been expressly prohibited by the "House of Representatives or the Senate. or the committee,
shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding four hundred dollars or, in default of payment thereof, to imprisonment not exceeding two years or to such imprisonment without the option of a fine or to both such fine and imprisonment.
Acceptance of bribes by members
21. Any member who accepts or agrees to accept, or obtains or attempts to obtain for himself or for any other person, any bribe, fee, compensation, reward or benefit of any kind for speaking, voting or acting as such member or for refraining from so speaking, voting or acting or on account of his having so spoken, voted or acted or having so refrained, shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine not exceedng four hundred dollars or, in default of payment thereof, to imprisonment not exceeding two years or to such imprisonment without the option of a fine or to both such fine and imprisonment.
* Amended by Order 8th October, 1970.