Corruption generally involves certain criminal behaviour by a public officer while acting in their capacity as a public officer.
This can include a person abusing their public office, bribery, breaching the duty of all public officers to act honestly in their duties and several other criminal offences as set out in Section 5 of the ICAC Act.
Corruption also includes aiding or abetting - or being party to - this kind of behaviour.
Corruption
Your friend tells you they have received an expiation notice. Your friend knows someone who works for the authority who issued the notice, so they offered that person cash in exchange for the notice being waived.
A prison officer bringing contraband into a prison to sell.
A public officer improperly demands that you pay them without any legal entitlement to do so.
Corruption is a term used in section 5 of the ICAC Act 2012 to describe a limited number of offences.
The Act defines corruption as:
- (a) an offence against Part 7 Division 4 (Offences relating to public officers) of the Criminal Law Consolidation Act 1935, which includes the following offences:
- (i) bribery or corruption of public officers;
- (ii) threats or reprisals against public officers;
- (iii) abuse of public office;
- (iv) demanding or requiring benefit on basis of public office;
- (v) offences relating to appointment to public office;
- or (b) an offence against the Public Sector (Honesty and Accountability) Act 1995 or the Public Corporations Act 1993, or an attempt to commit such an offence;
- or (ba) an offence against the Lobbyists Act 2015, or an attempt to commit such an offence
- or (d) any of the following in relation to an offence referred to in a preceding paragraph:
- (i) aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring the commission of the offence;
- (ii) inducing, whether by threats or promises or otherwise, the commission of the offence;
- (iii) being in any way, directly or indirectly, knowingly concerned in, or party to, the commission of the offence;
- (iv) conspiring with others to effect the commission of the offence
