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201 PDFTitle:PREVENTION OF BRIBERY ORDINANCEGazette Number:22 of 2008
Section:5Heading:Bribery for giving assistance, etc. in regard to contractsVersion Date:04/07/2008

(1) Any person who, without lawful authority or reasonable excuse, offers an advantage to a public servant as an inducement to or reward for or otherwise on account of such public servant's giving assistance or using influence in, or having given assistance or used influence in-

        (a) the promotion, execution, or procuring of-
          (i) any contract with a public body for the performance of any work, the providing of any service, the doing of any thing or the supplying of any article, material or substance, or
          (ii) any subcontract to perform any work, provide any service, do any thing or supply any article, material or substance required to be performed, provided, done or supplied under any contract with a public body; or
        (b) the payment of the price, consideration or other moneys stipulated or otherwise provided for in any such contract or subcontract as aforesaid,
shall be guilty of an offence.
(2) Any public servant who, without lawful authority or reasonable excuse, solicits or accepts any advantage as an inducement to or reward for or otherwise on account of his giving assistance or using influence in, or having given assistance or used influence in-
        (a) the promotion, execution or procuring of, or
        (b) the payment of the price, consideration or other moneys stipulated or otherwise provided for in,
any such contract or subcontract as is referred to in subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence.
(3) Any person who, without lawful authority or reasonable excuse, offers any advantage to the Chief Executive as an inducement to or reward for or otherwise on account of the Chief Executive's giving assistance or using influence in, or having given assistance or used influence in-
        (a) the promotion, execution or procuring of-
          (i) any contract with a public body for the performance of any work, the providing of any service, the doing of any thing or the supplying of any article, material or substance; or
          (ii) any subcontract to perform any work, provide any service, do any thing or supply any article, material or substance required to be performed, provided, done or supplied under any contract with a public body; or
        (b) the payment of the price, consideration or other moneys stipulated or otherwise provided for in any such contract or subcontract as is referred to in paragraph (a),
shall be guilty of an offence. (Added 22 of 2008 s. 3)
(4) If the Chief Executive, without lawful authority or reasonable excuse, solicits or accepts any advantage as an inducement to or reward for or otherwise on account of his giving assistance or using influence in, or having given assistance or used influence in-
        (a) the promotion, execution or procuring of; or
        (b) the payment of the price, consideration or other moneys stipulated or otherwise provided for in,
any such contract or subcontract as is referred to in subsection (3)(a), he shall be guilty of an offence. (Added 22 of 2008 s. 3)