Criminal Law Code as at 1st March 2007 or (b) person who, for himself or herself or any other person, gives or agrees to give or offers to an agent any gift or consideration as an inducement or reward⎯ (i) for doing or omitting to do, or having done or omitted to do, any act in relation to his or her principal’s affairs or business; or (ii) for showing or not showing, or having shown or not shown, any favour or disfavour to any person or thing in relation to his or her principal’s affairs or business; knowing or realising that there is a real risk or possibility that such gift or consideration is not due to the agent in terms of any agreement or arrangement between the agent and his or her principal; shall be guilty of bribery and liable to⎯ A. a fine not exceeding level fourteen or not exceeding three times the value of any consideration obtained or given in the course of the crime, whichever is the greater; or B. imprisonment for a period not exceeding twenty years; or both. (2) If it is proved, in any prosecution for bribery, that⎯ (a) an agent has obtained, agreed to obtain or solicited any gift or consideration12, whether for himself or herself or for another person; or (b) any person has given, agreed to give or offered any benefit or advantage13⎯ (i) to an agent, whether for himself or herself or for another person; or (ii) to any other person, after agreeing with an agent to do so; it shall be presumed, unless the contrary is proved, that he or she did so in contravention of this section. 171 Corruptly using a false document (1) Any⎯ (a) agent who, in connection with his or her principal’s affairs or business, uses a document which contains a false statement⎯ (i) knowing that the document contains a false statement or realising that there is a real risk or possibility that it may do so; and (ii) intending by the use of the document to deceive his or her principal, or realising that there is a real risk or possibility that his or her use of the document may deceive his or her principal; or (b) person who gives an agent a document which contains a false statement⎯ 12 13 As amended by s. 31 of Act 9/2006 [deletion of " benefit or advantage" and substitution of the words appearing in the text]. As amended by s. 31 of Act 9/2006 [deletion of " benefit or advantage" and substitution of the words appearing in the text]. - 97 -