“person” includes a body of persons, corporate or unincorporate;
“principal” includes an employer;
“public body” includes any executive, legislative, municipal or urban council, any Government department or undertaking, any local or public authority or undertaking, any board, commission committee or other body whether paid or unpaid appointed by the Governor or Government of Hong Kong or which has power to act under or for the purposes of any enactment in force in the Colony;
“public office” means any office or employment permanent or temporary and whether paid or unpaid of a person as a member, officer, or servant of such public body;
“public servant” means in addition to the meaning assigned to it by the Ordinance No. 31 of 1911, s.39, s.s. (10).Interpretation Ordinance, 1911, any employee or member of a public body as defined in this Ordinance, whether temporary or permanent and whether paid or unpaid.
Corruption in office an offence.
52 & 53 Vict. c. 69, s. 1.
3.—(1) Every person who shall by himself or by or in conjunction with any other person, corruptly solicit or receive, or agree to receive for himself, or for any other person, any gift, loan, fee, reward, or advantage whatever as an inducement to, or reward for, or otherwise on account of any member, officer, or servant of a public body doing or forbearing to do anything in respect of any matter or transaction whatsoever, actual or proposed, in which the said public body is concerned, shall be guilty of an offence.
(2) Every person who shall by himself or by or in conjunction with any other person corruptly give, promise, or offer any gift, loan, fee, reward, or advantage whatsoever to any person, whether for the benefit of that person or of another person, as an inducement to or reward for or otherwise on account of any member, officer, or servant of any public body doing or forbearing to do anything in respect of any matter or transaction whatsoever, actual or proposed, in which such public body as aforesaid is concerned, shall be guilty of an offence.
Corrupt transactions with agents an offence.
6 Ed. 7 c. 34.
4. If—
- (i) any agent corruptly accepts or obtains, or agrees to accept or attempts to obtain, from any person, for himself or for any other person, any gift or consideration as an inducement or reward for doing or forbearing to do, or for having after the passing of this Ordinance done or forborne to do, any act in relation to his principal’s affairs or business, or for showing or forbearing to show favour or disfavour to any person in relation to his principal’s affairs of business; or
- (ii) any person corruptly gives or agrees to give or offers any gift or consideration to any agent as an inducement or reward for doing or forbearing to do, or for having after the passing of this Ordinance done or forborne to do, any act in relation to his principal’s affairs or business, or for showing or forbearing to show favour or disfavour to any person in relation to his principal’s affairs or business; or
