CHAPTER TWO
Offences
PART IV
OFFENCES AGAINST THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE
Compounding Offences
Compounding crime
371. Any person who accepts, or agrees or offers to accept, any reward under pretence or on account of restoring to the person, or of helping the person to recover, anything which has been appropriated by deception, or other frauds, fraudulent breach of trust or stealing, handling, robbery, or extortion, or unlawful possession, upon the terms or with the understanding that such crime shall be compounded, is liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for ten years.
Compounding indictable offence on summary offence
372. -(1) Any person who, without leave of a Court, compounds any crime punishable on indictment, is liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for ten years.
(2) Unless in the opinion of the Court it was proper to do so in the circumstances, any person who without leave of the Court directly or indirectly, receives any sum of money or other reward in order not to prosecute a summary offence is liable on conviction to indictment to imprisonment for two years.
Compounding any offence involving child
373. Any person who, without leave of a court, compounds any crime in which a child was abused in any way, is liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for fifteen years.
Interference with Witnesses
Causing person to refrain from giving evidence at criminal trial
374. Any person who, with intent to defeat, obstruct, or pervert the course of justice at the trial of any other person for any crime, in any manner causes the other person to refrain from giving evidence at such trial, is liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for seven years.
Causing witness to disobey summons or not to produce evidence
375. Any person who, in any manner wilfully causes any other person to disobey a summons, subpoena, or order—
(a) for his or her attendance as a witness in any judicial proceeding; or
(b) for the production by him or her of any written or other evidence in any judicial proceedings;
is liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for five years.
National penalties - offences against the administration of justice
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