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Bribery (Amendment) Act (No. 20 of 1994) - Sect 7

Replacement of section 70 of the principal enactment

7. Section 70 of the principal enactment is hereby repealed and the following section substituted therefor:"
70. Any public servant who, with intent, enactment, to cause wrongful or unlawful loss to the Government, or to confer a wrongful or unlawful benefit, favour or advantage on himself or any person, or with knowledge, that any wrongful or unlawful loss will be caused to any person or to the Government, or that any wrongful or unlawful benefit, favour or advantage will be conferred on any person"
(a) does, or forbears to do, any act, which he is empowered to do by virtue of his office as a public servant;
(b) induces any other public servant to perform, or refrain from performing, any act, which such other public servant is empowered to do by virtue of his office as a public servant;
(c) uses any information coming to his knowledge by virtue of his office as a public servant;
(d) participates in the making of any decision by virtue of his office as a public servant;
(e) induces any other person, by the use, whether directly or indirectly, of his office as such public servant to perform, or refrain from performing, any act.


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