General offences

(1) Any person who, (a) wilfully hinders or deters any person from attending, giving evidence or producing any article or document; (b) threatens, insults or causes any loss to be suffered by any person who has attended before the Commission, on account of such attendance; (c) threatens, insults or causes a loss to be suffered by any member of the Commission at any time on account of the performances of his or her duties as a member of the (d) publishes or otherwise discloses any material which the Commission had prohibited him from publishing or disclosing; (e) publishes or otherwise discloses any material received by the Commission in camera; or (f) knowingly makes or publishes, whether to the or otherwise, any false, frivolous or vexatious allegation or complaint that any person commits an offence under this Act; 44 Prevention of Corruption commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding three thousand dollars or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding one year, or to both fine and imprisonment. (2) It shall be a defence in the case of a prosecution under paragraph (e) of subsection (1) of this section for the person charged to prove to the satisfaction of the court that he did not know nor had any reason of knowing that the material published or disclosed had been received by the Commission in camera.