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MISCELLANEOUS TRANSFERRED EXCISE DUTIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1972 - SECT 6

Bribery and collusion.

6.(1) If any authorised officer

(a)directly or indirectly asks for or takes in connection with any of his
duties as such officer any payment or other reward whatsoever, whether
pecuniary or otherwise, or any promise or security for any such payment or
reward, not being a payment or reward which he is lawfully entitled to claim
or receive; or

(b)enters into or acquiesces in any agreement to do, abstain from doing,
permit, conceal or connive at any act or thing whereby the Ministry is or may
be defrauded or which is otherwise unlawful, being an act or thing relating to
any transferred excise duty;

(2) If any person

(a)directly or indirectly offers or gives to any authorised officer any
payment or other reward whatsoever, whether pecuniary or otherwise, or any
promise or security for any such payment or reward; or

(b)proposes or enters into any agreement with any authorised officer;

(3) Any person committing an offence under this section shall be liable on
summary conviction to a fine not exceeding #500.

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