Malaysia legislation
Section 21
of Legislative Assembly Privileges Immunities And Powers Enactment 1963
Section 21
(1)
Any person who offers any fee, gift, compensation, profit, reward, loan, consideration or other advantage whatsoever, either directly or through any other person or otherwise indirectly, ―
(a)
to any member or officer for or in respect of the promotion of or opposition to any Bill, resolution, rule or other proposition or thing submitted to, or intended or expected to be submitted to, the Assembly or any committee, or otherwise with a view to influencing him in his capacity as member or officer; or
(b)
to any person in order to obtain his services for the purpose of influencing any member or officer in respect of or in regard to anything connected with any matter mentioned in paragraph (a) of this subsection, shall be guilty of an offence.
(2)
Any person mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b) of subsection (1) of this section who demands or accepts, directly or indirectly, any fee, gift, compensation, profit, reward, loan, consideration or other advantage whatsoever the offering of which would constitute an offence under the said subsection shall be guilty of an offence.
(3)
Any person who is guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable to imprisonment for seven years and a fine.
(4)
In any proceedings against any person for an offence under this section, the court, if it finds the offence proved, shall in addition to or in lieu of any penalty which it may impose order that the value of the fee, gift, compensation, profit, reward, loan, consideration or other advantage (where the nature thereof so allows) offered or accepted or received in contravention of this section shall be forfeited.
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False evidence.