MISDEMEANORS PUNISHMENT ORDINANCE, 1898

MISDEMEANORS PUNISHMENT ORDINANCE, 1898

No. 1 of 1898.

For the more effectual of Bribery and certain other
Misdemeanors. [28th February, 1898.j

1. The Misdemeanors Punishment Ordinance, 1898.

2. In this Ordinance,-
' Public servant ' means a any person holding or discharging the
duties, whether permanently or temporarily, of any office or appoint-
ment in the civil service, and includes every member of the police
force, and of the district watchmen force appointed tinder the
authority of the Regukition of Chinese Ordinance 1888.
' Bribe ' includes any fee, perquisite, reward, or gratification,
whether pecuniary or otherwise, not payable or receivable by law.

As amended by No. 51 of 1911 and No. 1 of 1912.
As atnended by No. 21 of 1912.
As amended by No. 1 of 1909, No. 50 of 1911 and No. 21 of 1912..
No. 1 of 1898.

3. Every public servant who accepts, or obtain, 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 inflience 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 2 years, and to a fine not exceeding 500 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 2 years, and to a fine not
exceeding 500 dollars.

5.Where any person is convicted in the Supreme Court of conspiring
cheat or defraud, or to extort money or goods, or falsely
to accuse of any crime, or to obstruct, prevent, pervert, or defeat
the course of public justice, he shall be liable to imprisonment for
any term not exceeding 3 years, and to a fine not exceeding 500
dollars.

6. - (1) Where any person is convicted in the Supreme Court of a
misdemeanor at common law and no punishment is provided by any
Act or Ordinance for such offence, he shall be liable to imprisonment
for any term not exceeding one year, and to a fine not exceeding
500 dollars.

(2) Where any person is convicted of an offence declared by any
Act or Ordinance to be a misdemeanor, and the punishment for such
offence is not specified, he shall be liable to imprisonment for any
term not exceeding one year, and to a fine not exceeding 500 dollars.
Short title. Interpretation of terms. No. 3 of 1888. Acceptance of bribe by public servant. Offering of bribe to public servant. Conspiracy to cheat or defraud, etc. Punishment of misdemeanor where punishment not otherwise specified.

Short title. Interpretation of terms. No. 3 of 1888. Acceptance of bribe by public servant. Offering of bribe to public servant. Conspiracy to cheat or defraud, etc. Punishment of misdemeanor where punishment not otherwise specified.

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