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The offense of criminal misconduct specified in section 13 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, is being substituted by a new section restricting the criminal misconduct to dishonest or fraudulent misappropriation of any property entrusted to the public servant or if the public servant intentionally enriches himself illicitly during the period ...
The Prevention of Corruption Act 1916 (6 & 7 Geo. 5. c. 64) The Prevention of Corruption Acts 1889 to 1916 is the collective title of the Public Bodies Corrupt Practices Act 1889, the Prevention of Corruption Act 1906 and the Prevention of Corruption Act 1916. [1] These Acts were repealed by Schedule 2 of the Bribery Act 2010. [2]
The Prevention of Corruption Act 1906 (6 Edw.7 c.34) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (as it was then). It was the second of three pieces of legislation regarding corruption which after 1916 were collectively referred to as the Prevention of Corruption Acts 1889 to 1916 .
It was set up by the Government of India Resolution on 11 February 1964, [2] on the recommendations of the Committee on Prevention of Corruption, headed by K. Santhanam, to advise and guide Central Government agencies in the field of vigilance. [3] Nittoor Srinivasa Rau was selected as the first Chief Vigilance Commissioner of India.
The autonomous Princely State of Bahawalpur adopted its own version of the act, namely the Bahawalpur Prevention of Corruption Act, 1950. In 1955, an accord was signed between Nawab Sadeq Mohammad Khan V and Lt Gen Ghulam Muhammad Malik which made the state of Bahawalpur a part of the province of West Pakistan.
The Corrupt Practices Prevention Act 1854 (17 & 18 Vict. c. 102) [1] introduced the category of 'corrupt practices' to the English legal system, although statutes for the prevention of specific offences had been passed in 1416, 1695, [nb 1] 1729, [2] 1809, 1827, 1829, and 1842.
The Public Bodies Corrupt Practices Act 1889 (52 & 53 Vict. c. 69) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (as it was then). It was one of the Prevention of Corruption Acts 1889 to 1916 , a collective title adopted in 1916.
Both men were being investigated in connection with the Prevention of Corruption Act relating to an IT contract, [25] and in late January 2012, it was announced that they also faced disciplinary action by the Public Service Commission, which oversees the conduct of civil servants. The two men were then interdicted, a step only taken when an ...