Section 55: Bribes offered to or accepted by juror

55. Bribes offered to or accepted by juror Every person who is guilty of the offence of attempting corruptly to influence a juror by persuasion or by bribery or by offer of bribery, and every juror who wilfully and corruptly consents thereto, shall be respectively punished by imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years, either in a summary manner by the Supreme Court, where the commission of the offence is discovered whilst a trial is pending before the Court, or by the Supreme Court on a criminal information filed by the Director of Public Prosecutions against the offender where the commission of the offence is not discovered whilst a trial was pending before the Court. [S. 55 amended by s. 2 (e) of Act 11 of 2007.]