Provisions the documents cite: s.1 (offences of bribing another person), s.6 (bribery of foreign public officials), s.7 (failure of commercial organisations to prevent bribery; adequate procedures defence), s.9 (guidance about preventing bribery)
What it requires
s.1 — a person is guilty of an offence if they offer, promise or give a financial or other advantage intending to induce or reward the improper performance of a relevant function or activity, or knowing or believing that accepting it would itself be improper performance; it does not matter whether this is done directly or through a third party. s.6 — bribing a foreign public official, intending to influence them in that capacity and to obtain or retain business or an advantage in the conduct of business, is an offence. s.7 — a relevant commercial organisation is guilty of an offence if a person associated with it bribes another intending to obtain or retain business, or an advantage in the conduct of business, for the organisation; it is a defence to prove that it had in place adequate procedures designed to prevent persons associated with it from doing so. s.9 — the Secretary of State must publish guidance about those procedures. The meaning of an associated person (s.8) and the published guidance were not read for this entry.
The instrument itself: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/23. The summary above is our plain-English reading, not the text of the instrument — always work from the source.
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