What does section 7 of the UK Bribery Act 2010 (failure to prevent bribery) say?

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Section 7 makes a commercial organisation guilty of an offence if a person associated with it bribes someone to obtain or keep business for it, unless it had adequate procedures to prevent bribery. The row quotes the revised text from legislation.gov.uk with the version date and a link.

Tool input

{
  "query": "Bribery Act 2010 s 7",
  "jurisdiction": "UK"
}

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curl https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/bosco_labs~national-law-lookup/run-sync-get-dataset-items \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"query": "Bribery Act 2010 s 7", "jurisdiction": "UK"}'

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curl https://api.boscolabs.dev/v1/national-law-lookup \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BOSCO_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"query": "Bribery Act 2010 s 7", "jurisdiction": "UK"}'

UK: contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (© Crown and database right, legislation.gov.uk).

Example output

Snapshot taken 2026-11-06, source links in each row. First 1 of 1 rows (snapshot runs stop at 5 rows); long values shortened.

[
  {
    "schema_version": "1",
    "query": "Bribery Act 2010 s 7",
    "jurisdiction": "UK",
    "act_id": "ukpga/2010/23",
    "eli": "http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2010/23",
    "title": "Bribery Act 2010",
    "long_title": "An Act to make provision about offences relating to bribery; and for connected purposes.",
    "act_type": "UK Public General Act",
    "act_type_code": "ukpga",
    "date_document": "2010-04-08",
    "date_publication": null,
    "official_publication": "2010 c. 23",
    "date_entry_into_force": null,
    "date_end_of_validity": null,
    "in_force": true,
    "act_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2010/23",
    "language": "EN",
    "as_of": null,
    "latest_consolidated_version_date": "2024-01-15",
    "text_version": "consolidated",
    "consolidated_version_date": "2024-01-15",
    "text_notice": "Revised (consolidated) text prepared by the legislation.gov.uk editorial team; changes listed in pending_changes are not yet applied to it. Contains public s...",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/23/section/7",
    "data_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/23/section/7/data.xml",
    "article": "7",
    "paragraph": null,
    "article_title": "Failure of commercial organisations to prevent bribery",
    "article_amended_by": [],
    "pending_changes": [],
    "article_text": "(1) A relevant commercial organisation (“C”) is guilty of an offence under this section if a person (“A”) associated with C bribes another person intending—\n...",
    "article_text_truncated": false,
    "warnings": [],
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-06T22:49:58+00:00",
    "duration_seconds": 0.2
  }
]

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