Saint Lucia

Criminal Code

CHAPTER TWO
Offences

PART IV
OFFENCES AGAINST THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE

Bribery and Corruption

Accepting agreement or offering to accept bribe as to juror or voter
412. Any person who accepts, or agrees or offers to accept, an valuable consideration for having unduly influenced, or for agreeing or being able so to influence, any person in the discharge of his or her duties as a juror or voter is liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for seven years.


Corrupting or attempt to corrupt juror or voter
413. A person who corrupts or attempts to corrupt any other person in the discharge of any duties as a juror or voter is liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for ten years.


Corrupt agreement or offer by judicial officer or juror
414. A judicial officer or juror who, otherwise than in the due execution of his or her duties as a judicial officer or juror, makes or offers to make any agreement or offer by any agreement with any person as to the judgment or verdict which he or she will or will not give as a judicial officer or juror in any pending or future proceeding is liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for ten years.


Corrupt selecting of juror
415. Any person who, with the intention of procuring any undue advantage or disadvantage to, any party to any judicial proceeding, procures himself or herself or any other person to be summoned, empannelled, or sworn as a juror in such proceeding, or endeavours to prevent any other person from being summoned, empannelled, or sworn as a juror in such proceeding, is liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for seven years.


Corruption by juror or voter
416. Every juror or voter who commits the offence of corruption, with respect to the discharge of the duties of his or her office, is liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for ten years.

Keywords

National penalties - offences against the administration of justice



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