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Acceptance of bribe by public servant.
Offering of bribe to public servant.
Punishment of misdemeanor.
No. 1 of 1898.
MISDEMEANORS PUNISHMENT.
3. Every public servant who accepts, or obtains, or agrees to accept, or attempts to obtain, or causes or procures to be obtained, from any person, whether by himself or by any other person and whether for himself or for any other person, any bribe, with a view to influence his conduct as such public servant or to incline him contrary to his duty as such public servant, or contrary to the rules of honesty and integrity, to do or to omit to do any act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years, and to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars.
4. Every person who gives or offers, or causes or procures to be given or offered, to any public servant any bribe, for himself or for any other person, with a view to influence his conduct as such public servant or to incline him contrary to his duty as such public servant, or contrary to the rules of honesty and integrity, to do or to omit to do any act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years, and to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars.
5. Where any person is convicted of a common law misdemeanor, or of any offence declared by any enactment to be a misdemeanor, and no punishment is provided by any enactment for such misdemeanor, such person shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three years and to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars.
Punishment not otherwise specified.
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[s. 6, rep. No. 13 of 1922.]
[Originally No. 12 of 1898. Law Rev Ord., 1924.]
No. 2 of 1898.
An Ordinance to make provision with respect to Kellet Island.
Short title.
[13th August, 1898.]
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Kellet Island Ordinance, 1898.
* See No. 3 of 1890, Third Schedule. † As amended by No. 13 of 1922. As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.