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PREVENTION OF CORRUPTION ACT 1916 - SECT 1

1. A person convicted on indictment of a misdemeanour under the
Prevention of Corruption Act, 1906, or the
Public Bodies Corrupt Practices Act, 1889, shall, where the matter or
transaction in relation to which the offence was committed was a contract or a
proposal for a contract with His Majesty or any Government Department or any
public body or a sub-contract to execute any work comprised in such a
contract, be liable to penal servitude for a term not exceeding seven nor less
than three years:

Provided that nothing in this section shall prevent the infliction in addition
to penal servitude of such punishment as under the above-mentioned Acts may be
inflicted in addition to imprisonment, or prevent the infliction in lieu of
penal servitude of any punishment which may be inflicted under the said Acts.

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