{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bribery-act-2010/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bribery-act-2010/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2010/23",
  "legislation_title": "Bribery Act 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bribery-act-2010",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Offences relating to being bribed",
  "text": "(1) A person (“R”) is guilty of an offence if any of the following cases applies.\n(2) Case 3 is where R requests, agrees to receive or accepts a financial or other advantage intending that, in consequence, a relevant function or activity should be performed improperly (whether by R or another person).\n(3) Case 4 is where—\n(a) R requests, agrees to receive or accepts a financial or other advantage, and\n(b) the request, agreement or acceptance itself constitutes the improper performance by R of a relevant function or activity.\n(4) Case 5 is where R requests, agrees to receive or accepts a financial or other advantage as a reward for the improper performance (whether by R or another person) of a relevant function or activity.\n(5) Case 6 is where, in anticipation of or in consequence of R requesting, agreeing to receive or accepting a financial or other advantage, a relevant function or activity is performed improperly—\n(a) by R, or\n(b) by another person at R's request or with R's assent or acquiescence.\n(6) In cases 3 to 6 it does not matter—\n(a) whether R requests, agrees to receive or accepts (or is to request, agree to receive or accept) the advantage directly or through a third party,\n(b) whether the advantage is (or is to be) for the benefit of R or another person.\n(7) In cases 4 to 6 it does not matter whether R knows or believes that the performance of the function or activity is improper.\n(8) In case 6, where a person other than R is performing the function or activity, it also does not matter whether that person knows or believes that the performance of the function or activity is improper.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/23/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:09:58.284739+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
    "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
  }
}