Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00132:section:37
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00132
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 37
Character Range: 1296274–1297914

37  Corruption of witnesses

Agreements or understandings
 (1) A person (the first person) commits an offence if:
 (a) the first person:
 (i) gives, confers or procures any property, or benefit, of any kind to, upon or for another person; or
 (ii) promises or offers to give, to confer, to procure or to attempt to procure any property, or benefit, of any kind to, upon or for another person; or
 (iii) asks for, receives or obtains any property, or benefit, of any kind for himself or herself or another person; or
 (iv) agrees to receive or to obtain any property, or benefit, of any kind for himself or herself or another person; and
 (b) the first person does so upon an agreement or understanding that any person called, or to be called, as a witness in a judicial proceeding will:
 (i) give false testimony; or
 (ii) withhold true testimony; and
 (c) the judicial proceeding is a federal judicial proceeding.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 5 years.
 (2) Absolute liability applies to the paragraph (1)(c) element of the offence.
Note: For absolute liability, see section 6.2 of the Criminal Code.

Inducing false testimony
 (3) A person commits an offence if:
 (a) the person does an act; and
 (b) the person does so with the intention of inducing a person called, or to be called, as a witness in a judicial proceeding:
 (i) to give false testimony; or
 (ii) to withhold true testimony; and
 (c) the judicial proceeding is a federal judicial proceeding.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 5 years.
 (4) Absolute liability applies to the paragraph (3)(c) element of the offence.
Note: For absolute liability, see section 6.2 of the Criminal Code.