Failure of commercial organisations to prevent bribery

9Guidance about commercial organisations preventing bribery

(1)

The Secretary of State must publish guidance about procedures that relevant commercial organisations can put in place to prevent persons associated with them from bribing as mentioned in section 7(1).

(2)

The Secretary of State may, from time to time, publish revisions to guidance under this section or revised guidance.

(3)

The Secretary of State must consult the Scottish Ministers F1and the Department of Justice in Northern Ireland before publishing anything under this section.

(4)

Publication under this section is to be in such manner as the Secretary of State considers appropriate.

(5)

Expressions used in this section have the same meaning as in section 7.