COOK ISLANDS - CRIMES ACT 1969

PART VI - CRIMES AFFECTING TEE ADMINISTRATION OF LAW AND JUSTICE

111. Judicial corruption - (1) Every judicial officer is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding fourteen years who corruptly accepts or obtains, or agrees or offers to accept or attempts to obtain, any bribe for himself or any other person in respect of any act done or omitted, by him in his judicial capacity.

(2) Every judicial officer, and every Registrar or Deputy Registrar of any Court, is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven years who corruptly accepts or obtains, or agrees or offers to accept or attempts to obtain, any bribe for himself or any other person in respect of any act done or omitted, or to be done or omitted, by him in his official capacity not being an act or omission to which subsection (1) of this section applies.

COOK ISLANDS - CRIMES ACT 1969

PART VI - CRIMES AFFECTING TEE ADMINISTRATION OF LAW AND JUSTICE

112. Bribery of Judicial officer, etc. - (1) Every one is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven years who corruptly gives or offers or agrees to give any bribe to any person with intent to influence any judicial officer in respect of any act or omission by him in his judicial capacity.

(2) Every one is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years who corruptly gives or offers or agrees to give any bribe to any person with intent to influence any judicial officer or any Registrar or Deputy Registrar of any Court in respect of any act or omission by him in his official capacity, not being an act or omission to which subsection (1) of this section applies.

COOK ISLANDS - CRIMES ACT 1969

PART VI - CRIMES AFFECTING TEE ADMINISTRATION OF LAW AND JUSTICE

120. Punishment of perjury - (1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, every one is liable to imprisonment for a term-not exceeding seven years who Commit perjury.

(2) If perjury is committed in order to procure the conviction of a person for any crime punishable by death, or for any offence for which the maximum punishment is not less than three years imprisonment, the punishment may be imprisonment for a term not exceeding fourteen years.

COOK ISLANDS - CRIMES ACT 1969

PART VI - CRIMES AFFECTING TEE ADMINISTRATION OF LAW AND JUSTICE

122. False statements or declarations - Every one is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years who, on any occasion on which he is required or permitted by law to make any statement or declaration before any officer or person authorised by law to take or receive it, or before any notary public to be certified by him as such notary, makes a statement or declaration that would amount to perjury if made on oath in a judicial proceeding.

COOK ISLANDS - CRIMES ACT 1969

PART VI - CRIMES AFFECTING TEE ADMINISTRATION OF LAW AND JUSTICE

124. Fabricating evidence - Every one is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven years who, with intent to mislead any tribunal holding any judicial proceeding to which section 119 of this Act applies, fabricates evidence by any means other than perjury.

COOK ISLANDS - CRIMES ACT 1969

PART VI - CRIMES AFFECTING TEE ADMINISTRATION OF LAW AND JUSTICE

127. Conspiring to defeat justice - Every one is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven years who conspires to obstruct, prevent, pervert, or defeat the course of justice.

128 Corrupting juries and witnesses - Every one is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven years who-

(a) Dissuades or attempts to dissuade any person, by threats, bribes, or other corrupt means, from giving evidence in any cause or matter, civil or criminal; or

(b) Influences or attempts to influence, by threats or bribes or other corrupt means, any juryman or assessor in his conduct as such, juryman or assessor whether the juryman has been sworn as a juryman or assessor as the case may be, or not; or

(c) Accepts any bribe or other corrupt consideration to abstain from giving evidence, or on account of his conduct as a juryman or assessor; or

(d) Wilfully attempts in any other way to obstruct, prevent, pervert, or defeat the course of justice.