Secret Commissions Act 1905 (WA)

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WESTERN AUSTRALIA-

ANNO QUINTO

EDWARDI SEPTIMI REGIS,

XIII.

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No. 13 of 1905.

AN ACT for the Prohibition of Secret Com-

missions and Rebates.

[Assented to 23rd December, 1905.]

Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parlia-

BE it enacted by the I“ng's Most Excellent Majesty, by and withthe advice and consent of the Legislative Council and

ment assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1. This Act may be cited as the Secret Commissions Act, 1905, short title.

and shall come into operation on the first day of April, one

thousand nine hundred and six.

2. If any agent corruptly receives or solicits from any person,

Receipt or solicita-tion of secret com-

for himself or for any other person, any valuable consideration

mission by an agent

a misdemeanour.

(a.) as an inducement or reward for, or otherwise on account

V. 1905, No. 1974,

of, doing or forbearing to do or having done or forborne

s. 2.

to do any act in relation to his principal's affairs or

business: or

1905, No. 13.]

Secret Commissions.

[5 EDW. VII.

(h.) the receipt or any expectation of which would in any way tend to influence him to show or to forbear to show favour or disfavour to any person in relation to his principal's affairs or business,

he shall be guilty of a misdemeanour.

Gift or oiler of

3. If any person corruptly gives or offers to any agent any

secret commission

to an agent a

valuable consideration

misdemeanour.

(a.)

as an inducement or reward for, or otherwise on account

Ibid.

of, doing or forbearing to do or having done or forborne to do any act in relation to his principal's affairs or business ; or

(b.) the receipt or any expectation of which would in any way tend to influence him to show or to forbear to show favour or disfavour to any person in relation to his principal's affairs or business,

he shall be guilty of a misdemeanour.

Secret gifts to

Parent, wife, child,

4. (l.) Any valuable consideration given or offered to any

partner, etc., of

parent, husband, wife, or child of any agent, or to his partner, clerk,

agent deemed gifts

or employee, or at the agent's request to any person by any person

to agent.

Ibid., s. 8.

having business relations with the principal of such agent, shall be

deemed to have been given or offered to the agent.

Secret gifts received

(2.) Any valuable consideration received or solicited by any

by parent, wife,

child, partner, etc.,

parent, husband, wife, or child of any agent, or by his partner, clerk,

of agent deemed

or employee, from any person having business relations with the

received by agent.

principal of such agent shall be deemed to have been received or

Ibid.

solicited by the agent, unless it be proved that the valuable con- sideration was so received or solicited without the consent, know- ledge, or privity of the agent.

Giving to agent

false or…

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