Section 4: Prosecution of offences.

CHAPTER 33. PREVENTION OF CORRUPTION. An Ordinance for the Better Prevention of Corruption. 11 of 1907. [4TH MAY, 1907.] 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Prevention of Short title. Corruption Ordinance, and shall apply to the Colony and Protectorate. 2. (1) For the purposes of this Ordinance- " consideration " includes valuable consideration of an,y kind; " agent " includes any person employed by or for another; and " principal " includes any employer. (2) A person serving under the Crown, or under any Corporation, or any Municipal Council, or Board, is an agent within the meaning of this Ordinance. 3. (1) If any agent corruptly accepts or obtains, or agrees to accept, or attempts to obtain, from any person for himself, or for any other person, any gift or consideration as an inducement or reward for doing, or forbearing to do, or for having, after the passing of this Ordinance, done, or forborne to do, any act in relation to his principal's affairs or business, or for showing, or forbearing to show, favour or disfavour to any person in relation to his principal's affairs or business; or (2) If any person corruptly gives, or agrees to give, or offers any gift or consideration to any agent as an inducement or S.L.-VOL. I-21* Interpretation. Agent further defined. Punishment of corrupt transactions with agents. f i I i Prosecution of offences. 22 & 23 Viet. c. 17. Cap. 33] Prevention of Corruption reward for doing, or forbearing to do, or for having, after the passing of this Ordinance, done or forborne to do any act in relation to his principal's affairs or business, or for showing, or forbearing to show, favour or disfavour to any person in relation to his principal's affairs or business; or (3) If any person knowingly gives to any agent, or if any agent knowingly uses with intent to deceive his principal, any receipt, account, or other document in respect of which the principal is interested, and which contains any statement which is false or erroneous or defective in any material particular, and which to his knowledge is intended to mislead the principal; he shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and shall be liable, on conviction before the Supreme Court, to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for a term not exceeding two years, or to a fine not exceeding five hundred pounds, or to both such imprisonment and such fine, or on summary conviction to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for a term not exceeding four months, or to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds, or to both such imprisonment and such fine. 4. (1) A prosecution for an offence under this Ordinance shall not be instituted without the consent of the Attorney General. (2) The Vexatious Indictments Act, 1859, as amended by any subsequent enactment, shall apply to offences under this Ordinance as if they were included among the offences mentioned in section 1 of that Act.