'Soliciting or accepting a bribe as an official of the Court' in document 'Solomon Islands - Penal Code'

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RELEVANT SECTIONS OF THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION

PART X
CORRUPTION AND THE ABUSE OF OFFICE

Official corruption

91. Any person who
(a) being employed in the public service, and being charged with the performance of any duty by virtue of such employment, corruptly asks for, solicits, receives or obtains, or agrees or attempts to receive or obtain, any property or benefit of any kind for himself or any other person on account of anything already done or omitted to be done, or to be afterwards done or omitted to be done, by him in the discharge of the duties of his office; or

(b) corruptly gives, confers, or procures, or promises or offers to give or confer, or to procure, or attempt to procure, to, upon, or for any person employed in the public service, or to, upon, or for any other person, any property or benefit of any kind on account of any such act or omission on the part of the person so employed,
is guilty of a felony and shall be liable to imprisonment for seven years.

Extortion by public officers

92. Any person who, being employed in the public service, takes or accepts from any person for the performance of his duty as such officer, any reward beyond his proper pay and emoluments, or any promise of such reward, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and shall be liable to imprisonment for three years.

Public officers receiving property to show favour

93. Any person who, being employed in the public service, receives any property or benefit of any kind for himself or any other person, on the understanding, express or implied, that he shall favour the person giving the property or conferring the benefit, or any one in whom he is interested, in any transaction then pending, or likely to take place, between the person giving the property or conferring the benefit, or any one in whom he is interested, and any person employed in the public service, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour and shall be liable to imprisonment for six months.

PART XII

OTHER OFFENCES RELATING TO THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE

Bribe or attempt to bribe
11 of 1986, s. 3
122. Any person who in relation to any offence bribes or attempts to bribe or makes any promise to any other person with either of the following two intents
(a) to obstruct, defeat or pervert the course of justice in the court; or

(b) to dissuade any person from doing his duty in connection with the course of justice in the court,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanour.

RELEVANT ROME STATUTE PROVISIONS

Article 70
Offences against the administration of justice
1. The Court shall have jurisdiction over the following offences against its administration of justice when committed intentionally:
(f) Soliciting or accepting a bribe as an official of the Court in connection with his or her official duties