Chapter 9

CORRUPTION AND THE ABUSE OF OFFICE.

85. Officers charged with administration of property of a special

character, etc. Any person who, being employed in the public service and being charged by virtue of that employment with any judicial or administrative duties respecting property of a special character, or respecting the carrying on of any manufacture, trade or business of a special character, and having acquired or holding, directly or indirectly, a private interest in any such property, manufacture, trade or business, discharges any such duties with respect to the property, manufacture, trade or business in which he or she has such interest or with respect to the conduct of any person in relation thereto commits a misdemeanour and is liable to imprisonment for one year.

86. False claims by officials.

Any person who, being employed in the public service in such a capacity as to require him or her or to enable him or her to furnish returns or statements touching any sum payable or claimed to be payable to himself or herself or to any other person, or touching any other matter required to be certified for the purpose of any payment of money or delivery of goods to be made to any person, makes a return or statement touching any such matter which is, to his or her knowledge, false in any material particular, commits a misdemeanour.

87. Abuse of office.

(1) A person who, being employed in a public body or a company in which the Government has shares, does or directs to be done an arbitrary act prejudicial to the interests of his or her employer or of any other person, in abuse of the authority of his or her office, commits an offence and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven years.

(2) Where a person is convicted of an offence under subsection (1) and the act constituting the offence was done for the purposes of gain, the court shall, in addition to any other penalty it may impose, order that anything received as a consequence of the act be forfeited to the Government.

88. Consent of the Director of Public Prosecutions.

A person shall not be prosecuted for an offence under section 85, 86 or 87 without the written consent of the Director of Public Prosecutions.

89. False certificates by public officers.

Any person who, being authorised or required by law to give any certificate touching any matter by virtue whereof the rights of any person may be prejudicially affected, gives a certificate which is, to his or her knowledge, false in any material particular commits a misdemeanour.

90. Unauthorised administration of oaths.

Any person who administers an oath or takes a solemn declaration or affirmation or affidavit, touching any matter with respect to which he or she has not by law any authority to do so commits a misdemeanour and is liable to imprisonment for one year; except that this section shall not apply to an oath, declaration, affirmation or affidavit administered by or taken before a magistrate or a justice of the peace in any matter relating to the preservation of the peace or the punishment of offences or relating to inquiries respecting sudden deaths, nor to an oath, declaration, affirmation or affidavit administered or taken for some purpose which is lawful under the laws of another country, or for the purpose of giving validity to an instrument in writing which is intended to be used in another country.

91. False assumption of authority.

Any person who— (a) not being a judicial officer, assumes to act as a judicial officer;

(b) without authority assumes to act as a person having authority by law to administer an oath or take a solemn declaration or affirmation or affidavit or to do any other act of a public nature which can only be done by persons authorised by law to do so; or

(c) represents himself or herself to be a person authorised by law to sign a document testifying to the contents of any register or record kept by lawful authority, or testifying to any fact or event, and signs such document as being so authorised, when he or she is not, and knows that he or she is not, in fact, so authorised, commits a misdemeanour.

92. Personating public officers.

Any person who— (a) personates any person employed in the public service on an occasion when the latter is required to do any act or attend in any place by virtue of his or her employment; or

(b) falsely represents himself or herself to be a person employed in the public service and assumes to do any act or to attend in any place for the purpose of doing any act by virtue of such employment, commits a misdemeanour and is liable to imprisonment for three years.

93. Threat of injury to persons employed in public service.

Whoever holds out any threat of injury to any person employed in the public service or to any person in whom he or she believes that person employed in the public service to be interested, for the purpose of inducing that person employed in the public service to do any act or to forbear or delay to do any act connected with the exercise of the public functions of such person employed in the public service, commits a misdemeanour.