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Crimes Act 1961

Crimes affecting the administration of law and justice - Bribery and corruption

104: Corruption and bribery of law enforcement officer

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“It's against the law for police officers to take bribes or for anyone to offer them bribes to influence their work.”

If you are a law enforcement officer, you can go to prison for up to 7 years if you dishonestly accept or try to get a bribe for yourself or someone else. This applies to any actions you do or don’t do as part of your job.

If you try to bribe a law enforcement officer, you can also go to prison for up to 7 years. This includes giving, offering, or agreeing to give a bribe to anyone to try to influence what a law enforcement officer does or doesn’t do as part of their job.

A bribe is something valuable given to try to make someone do something they shouldn’t, or not do something they should.

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Part 6 Crimes affecting the administration of law and justice
Bribery and corruption

104Corruption and bribery of law enforcement officer

  1. Every law enforcement officer is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 7 years who corruptly accepts or obtains, or agrees or offers to accept or attempts to obtain, any bribe for himself or herself or any other person in respect of any act done or omitted, or to be done or omitted, by him or her in his or her official capacity.

  2. Every one is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 7 years who corruptly gives or offers or agrees to give any bribe to any person with intent to influence any law enforcement officer in respect of any act or omission by him or her in his or her official capacity.

Compare
  • 1908 No 32 s 127
Notes
  • Section 104(2): amended, on , by section 6 of the Crimes (Bribery of Foreign Public Officials) Amendment Act 2001 (2001 No 28).