An OFT spokesman confirmed that both current and former employees qualify for immunity from prosecution for cartel offences provided there has been an admission of participation and full co-operation.
On 5 January 1718, a proclamation was issued announcing clemency for all piratical offences, provided that those seeking what became known as the "King's Pardon" surrendered not later than 5 September 1718.
If a person abets an offence, and as a result the act abetted is committed, the person is to be punished with the punishment provided for the offence.
It also provided for the method by which offences against this act, or the Army Act, were to be tried.
All criminal offences would be covered and a greater range of freezing and confiscation orders would be provided for.
It prevents the courts from imposing a penalty that was not provided for by law at the time of the commission of the offence.
Flower's offence provides the perfect opportunity for the RFL – and for that matter the game's International Federation, if only it existed in any meaningful form – to get on the front foot.
In a submission to a NSW parliamentary inquiry, Megan Latham recommended that the NSW Crimes Act be amended to provide for the offence of misconduct in office.
Having triad societies, such as 14 K or Wo On Lok, operate in one's establishments was a violation of Art 288 of the Penal code of the Macao gaming law, which provides for the offence of criminal association (Chan 2012, p. 127).
