Western Australian Consolidated Acts

CORRUPTION AND CRIME COMMISSION ACT 2003 - SECT 169

169 .         Bribery of witness

                A person who —

            (a)         gives, confers, or procures, or promises or offers to give or confer, or to procure or attempt to procure, any property or benefit of any kind to, upon, or for, any person, upon any agreement or understanding that any person called or to be called as a witness before the Commission or the Parliamentary Inspector will give false testimony or withhold true testimony;

            (b)         attempts by any means to induce a person called or to be called as a witness before the Commission or Parliamentary Inspector to give false testimony, or to withhold true testimony; or

            (c)         asks, receives or obtains, or agrees or attempts to receive or obtain, any property or benefit of any kind for that or any other person, upon any agreement or understanding that a witness before the Commission or Parliamentary Inspector will give false testimony or withhold true testimony,

                is guilty of a crime.

        Penalty: Imprisonment for 5 years and a fine of $100 000.

        [Section 169 inserted by No. 78 of 2003 s. 22.]