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False evidence

etc.

Offer or accep- tance of bribes.

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL (POWERS AND PRIVILEGES).

(d) creates or joins in any disturbance which interrupts or is likely to interrupt the proceedings of the Council or any committee while the Council or such committee is sitting; or

(e) publishes, or divulges to any person other than a member, any evidence taken by, or docu- ment presented to, a committee where such evi- dence has been taken or document presented, within closed doors and which has not been reported to the Council, or where its publication has been expressly prohibited by the Council or the committee,

shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on sum- mary conviction to a fine of two hundred dollars or to imprisonment for six months, or to both such fine and imprisonment.

17. Any person who, in circumstances not con- stituting an offence under any law for the time being in force relating to perjury—

(a) presents to the Council, or a committee or officer of the Council, any false, untrue, fabricated or falsified document, knowing the same to be false, untrue, fabricated or falsified, with intent to deceive the Council or such committee; or

(b) knowingly gives false evidence as a wit- ness before the Council or a committee,

shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine of two thousand dollars or to imprisonment for two years or to both such fine and imprisonment.

18. (1) Any person who offers to any Member or officer of the Council any bribe, in order to influence him in his conduct as such Member or officer, or who offers to any Member or officer of the Council any fee, compensation, gift or reward for or in respect of the promotion of or opposition to any Bill or matter sub- mitted, or intended to be submitted to, the Council or a committee, shall be guilty of an offence.

(2) Any Member who accepts or agrees to accept or obtains or attempts to obtain for himself or any other person any bribe, fee, compensation, reward or benefit