Section 18Part 0 —
Other offences
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A person who —
disobeys an order made by the Parliament or a committee for attendance or for production of papers, books, documents or records, unless such attendance or production is excused under section 8(1).
refuses to be examined before, or to answer any lawful and relevant question put by the Parliament or a committee unless such refusal is excused under section 8(2).
offers to any member of the Parliament any bribe, fee, compensation, gift or reward in order to influence that person in that person's conduct as such member, or for or in respect of the promotion of or opposition to any bill, resolution, matter, rules or things submitted to or intended to be submitted to the Parliament;
assaults, obstructs or insults any member coming to or going from the precincts of the Parliament, or endeavours to compel any member by force, insult or menace to declare themselves in favour of or against any proposition or matter pending or expected to be brought before the Parliament;
assaults, interferes with, resists or obstructs the Clerk while in the execution of the Clerk's duty;
creates or joins in any disturbance which interrupts or is likely to interrupt the proceedings of the Parliament while the Parliament is sitting; or
presents to the Parliament or a committee any false, untrue, fabricated or falsified document with intent to deceive the Parliament,
commits an offence and is liable on conviction before the Grand Court to a fine of one hundred dollars and to imprisonment for six months.
A person who —
publishes any statement, whether in writing or otherwise, which falsely or scandalously defames the Parliament or any committee, or which reflects on the character of the Speaker or the Chairperson of a committee in the discharge of that person's duty as such;
publishes any writing containing a gross, wilful or scandalous misrepresentation of the proceedings of the Parliament or a committee or of the speech of any member in the proceedings of the Parliament or a committee;
publishes any writing containing any false or scandalous libel on any member touching that person's conduct as a member; or
publishes any report or statement purporting to be a report of the proceedings of the Parliament in any case where such proceedings have been conducted after exclusion of the public by order of the Parliament,
commits an offence and is liable on conviction before the Grand Court to a fine of eight hundred dollars and to imprisonment for twelve months.