(b) expediting, delaying, hindering or preventing, or having expedited, delayed, hindered or prevented, the performance of an act, whether by himself or by any other public servant in his or that other public servant's

capacity as a public servant; or

favouring, hindering or having assisted, favoured, delayed, any person in the

(c) assisting,

delaying, or

hindered or

transaction

of

public body,

any

business with a

shall be guilty of an offence.

Crown

(3)

If a public servant other than servant solicits or accepts an advantage with the permission of the public body of which he is an employee being permission which complies with subsection (4), neither he nor the person who offered the advantage shall be guilty of an offence under this section.

(4)

For the purposes of subsection (3) permission shall be in writing and -

(a)

(b)

be given before the ad antage is offered, solicited or accepted, or

in any case where an advantage has been offered or accepted without prior permission, be

be applied for and given as soon as reasonably possible after such offer or acceptance,

and for such permission to be effective for the purposes of sub-section (3), the public body shall, before giving such permission, have regard to the circumstances in which it is sought.

10.(1) Any person who, being or having been a Crown

servant

(a)

(b)

maintains a standard of living above that which is commensurate with his present or past official emoluments; or

is in control of pecuniary resources or property disproportionate to his present

or past official emoluments.

shall, unless he gives satisfactory explanation to the court as to how he was able to maintain such a standard of living or how such pecuniary resources or property, came under his control, be guilty of an offence.

Possession

of

unexplained

property.

Amendment No.

2(2) 193

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