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CHAPTER 263 
PREVENTION OF CORRUPTIO N (PLAYERS) ACT
To provide for the prevention of corruption of players.
8th June, 1976
ACT XIX of 1976, as amended by Acts XIII of 1983 and XXIV of 2001.
Short title.
(Players) Act.
Interpretation.
Amended by:
XXIV. 2001.80.
2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires -
 "consideration" includes any consideration of any kind, whether
in money or otherwise;
Cap. 438.
"game or sport" includes any football match or other game, other
than a "game" as defined in the Lotteries and Other Games Act, and
any race or other sporting event to which the public, or any section
thereof, is admitted whether on payment or otherwise;
"official" means any referee, linesman, umpire, steward, or any
other person managing, directing or supervising any game or sport;
"organiser" means any club manager, member of a club’s
committee, trainer or any other person organising or concerned in
the administration and/or organisation of any game or sport;
"player" includes any person who takes part in any game or
sport.
Corrupt practices 
by players, 
officials, etc.
3. (1) Any player who accepts or obtains, or agrees to accept
or obtain, or attempts to obtain, from any person for himself or for
any other person whomsoever any gift or consideration as an
inducement or reward for doing or for omitting from doing, or for
having, after the enactment of this Act, done or omitted from doing,
any act the doing or omission of which is against the interests of the
side for which he plays, or those of the person or club by whom or
by which he is engaged or whom or which he represents, shall be
guilty of an offence.
(2) Any official or organiser who accepts or obtains, or agrees
to accept or obtain, or attempts to obtain, from any person for
himself or for any other person whomsoever any gift or
consideration as an inducement or reward for doing or for omitting
from doing, or for having, after the enactment of this Act, done or
omitted from doing, any act in relation to any game or sport in or
with which he is concerned, other than such as is lawfully due to
him, or for showing or exercising favour or disfavour to any person
or side taking part in any game or sport, or for otherwise
influencing the course or result of any game or sport, shall be guilty
of an offence.
(3) Any person who gives, or agrees to give or offers or
proposes to another person, directly or indirectly, that such other
person should give or agree to give or offer any gift or
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consideration to any player or to any official or organiser as an
inducement or reward for doing or for omitting from doing, or for
having, after the commencement of this Act, done or omitted from
doing any act which, if done or omitted, would be in contravention
of subarticle (1) or (2), shall be guilty of an offence.
Duty to report 
corrupt practice.
4. Any official, player or organiser who has knowledge,
whether verbally, in writing, or otherwise, that an offence has been
committed against any of the provisions of article 3, shall
communicate such knowledge to the Commissioner of Police and,
if he fails to do so within a period of three months from the date in
which he became aware of such knowledge, he shall be guilty of an
offence:
Provided that this section shall not apply to the husband or
wife, the ascendants or descendants, the brother or sister, the
father-in-law or mother-in-law, the son-in-law or daughter-in-law,
the uncle or aunt, the nephew or niece, and the brother-in-law or
sister-in-law of a principal or an accomplice in the crime so not
disclosed.
Bets or wagers. 5. Deleted by Act XXIV. 2001.80.
Bona fide  gifts. 6. No gift or other consideration given or offered to any
player by the management or by any member of the committee of
the club to which such player is attached or engaged (provided such
member has been previously authorised so to do by the committee
of the said club) shall be deemed to be in contravention of any
provision of this Act if such gift or consideration is offered or
given and accepted for genuine efforts by the player concerned in
furtherance of the interests of the club in question.
Exemption from 
punishment.
7. Where two or more persons take part in the commission of
any offence against any of the provisions of this Act, any one of
them who, prior to the initiation of any criminal proceedings, gives
first information thereof and reports the other offender or offenders
to the competent authorities shall be exempt from punishment.
Liability of 
licensees of shops. 
Amended by: 
XIII. 1983.5.
8. (1) Where a licensee of any shop is aware that an offence
against any of the provisions of this Act has been committed in his
shop and he does not give notice thereof to the Commissioner of
Police within twenty-four hours from the time in which he had
become so aware, he shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on
conviction, be liable to a fine ( multa ) of not less than one hundred
liri but not exceeding five hundred liri.
(2) The Commissioner of Police shall withdraw the licence of
any person who has been found guilty of an offence under
subarticle (1).
(3) For the purposes of subarticle (1), a licensee shall not be
deemed to have given the required notice to the Commissioner of
Police unless he gives to the said Commissioner all particulars in
his knowledge relating to the offender or offenders.
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Penalty. 
Amended by: 
XIII. 1983.5;
XXIV. 2001.80.
9. (1) Saving the provisions of article 8, any person who is
guilty of an offence against - 
( a ) the provisions of article 3 shall be liable, on
conviction, to a fine ( multa ) of not less than two
hundred liri but not exceeding one thousand liri and to
imprisonment for a term of not less than four months
but not exceeding two years;
( b ) the provisions of article 4 shall be liable - 
(i) on a first conviction, to a fine ( multa ) of not less
than one hundred liri but not exceeding five
hundred liri, or to imprisonment for a term not
exceeding three months, or to both such fine and
imprisonment, and
(ii) on a second or subsequent conviction, to a fine
( multa ) of not less than two hundred liri but not
exceeding one thousand liri, and to
imprisonment for a term from four months to six
months.
(2) In the case of a prosecution under the provisions of this
Act, any person who in any way whatsoever has taken part in the
commission of an offence, and whose evidence is required in
support of such charge, shall be compellable to answer any
question respecting that charge, notwithstanding that the answer
thereto will expose him to criminal prosecution; but in any such
event, any person who shall have given evidence in respect of such
charge, and who shall have made a true and faithful statement
touching such charge, to the best of his knowledge, shall thereupon
obtain from the court a certificate to that effect, and he shall, in
consequence, be exempted from all punishment in respect of his
participation in the offence forming the subject-matter of the
charge upon which he gave evidence as witness.
Saving.
Substituted by:
XXIV. 2001.80.
Cap. 438.
10. Nothing in this Act shall prejudice the operation of, or
shall be deemed to substitute or to derogate any of the provisions
of, the Lotteries and Other Games Act.
