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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 [1] These Acts were repealed by Schedule 2 of the Bribery Act 2010.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 .
The concept is extensively used to initiate corruption investigations against public servants and elected politicians in India, [2] [3] and has been codified in several pieces of national- and state-level legislation, including the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988.
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.
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.
whether section 37(1) of the Prevention of Corruption Act (Cap. 241, 1993 Rev. Ed.) ("PCA") was ultra vires the powers of the legislature on the ground that the legislature had, under section 6(3) of the Republic of Singapore Independence Act 1965 (No. 9 of 1965, 1985 Rev. Ed.), been divested of the power to legislate extraterritorially; and
Corruption includes industrial corruption, consisting of large bribes, as well as petty corruption such as a poacher paying off a park ranger to ignore poaching. The presence of fuel extraction and export is unambiguously associated with corruption, whereas mineral exports only increased corruption in poorer countries.