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Article 118.56
 

The following persons shall be deemed guilty ofthe offence ofbribery:


(a) every person who, directly or indirectly, by himself or by any other person on his behalf, gives, lends or agrees to give or lend, or offers, promises or promisesto procure, or to endeavour to procure, any money or valuable consideration to or for any voter, or to or for any person on behalf of any voter, or to or for anyother person, in order to induce any voter to vote or refrain from voting, or corruptly does any such act asaforesaid on account of such voter having voted or refrained from voting at any election under this Ordinance;


(b) every person who, directly or indirectly, by himself or by any other person on his behalf, gives or procures, or agrees to give or procure, or offers, promises orpromises to procure or to endeavour to procure any office, place or employment to or for any voter or to or for any person on behalf of any voter or to or for any other person in order to induce any voter to vote or refrain from voting, or corruptly does any such act asaforesaid on account of any voter having voted or refrained from voting at any election under this Ordinance;


(c) every person who, directly or indirectly, by himself or by any other person on his behalf, makes any such gift, loan, offer, promise, procurement, or agreement as aforesaid, to or for any person in order to induce such person to procure or endeavour to procure the return of any person as a member of the House, or the vote of any voter at any election under this Ordinance;


(d) every person who, upon or in consequence of any such gift, loan, offer, promise, procurement, or agreement,procures or engages, promises or endeavours to procure, the return of any person as a member of the House or the vote of any voter at any election under this Ordinance;


(e) every person who advances or pays or causes to be paid any money to or for the use of any other person,


with the intent that such money or any part thereof shall be expended in bribery at any election under thisOrdinance, or who shall knowingly pay or cause to be paid any money to any person in discharge or repayment of any money wholly or in part expended in bribery at any suchelection;


(f) every person being a voter who, before or during any election under this Ordinance, directly or indirectly, by himself or by any other person on his behalf, receives, agrees, or contracts for any money, gift, loan, or valuable consideration, office, place or employment, for himself or for any other person, for voting or agreeing to vote or for refraining or agreeing to refrain from voting at any such election;


(g) every person who, after any election under this Ordinance, directly or indirectly, by himself or by anyother person on his behalf, receives any money or valuable consideration on account of any person having voted or refrained from voting or having induced any other person to vote or to refrain from voting at any such election.