Section 172Part 29 — Offences
Offences
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that person does not to the best of that person’s knowledge and belief fully discover to the Trustee administering that person’s estate for the benefit of that person’s creditors all that person’s property, real and personal, and how, to whom and for what consideration, and when that person disposed of any part of that person’s property except such part as has been disposed of in the ordinary way of that person’s trade, if any, or laid out in the ordinary expense of that person’s family;
that person does not deliver up to the Trustee, or as the Trustee directs, all such part of that person’s real and personal property as is in that person’s custody or under that person’s control and which that person is required by Law to deliver up, unless the jury is satisfied that that person had no intent to defraud;
that person does not deliver to the Trustee, or as the Trustee directs, all books, documents, papers and writings in that person’s custody or under that person’s control, relating to that person’s property or affairs, unless the jury is satisfied that that person had no intent to defraud;
since the presentation of the petition by or against that person or within six months before such presentation, that person has concealed or removed any part of that person’s property to the value of twenty dollars or upwards or concealed any debt due to or from that person, unless the jury is satisfied that that person had no intent to defraud;
that person makes any material omission in any statement required under this Act relating to that person’s affairs, unless the jury is satisfied that that person had no intent to defraud;
knowing or believing that a false debt has been proved by any person under the bankruptcy proceedings, that person fails for the period of a month to inform the Trustee thereof, unless the jury is satisfied that that person had no intent to defraud;
after the presentment of the petition by or against that person, that person prevented the production of any book, document, paper or writing, affecting or relating to that person’s property or affairs, unless the jury is satisfied that that person had no intent to conceal the state of that person’s affairs or to defeat the Law;
after the presentment of the petition, or within six months before such presentment, that person has concealed, destroyed, mutilated or falsified, or has been privy to the concealment, destruction, mutilation or falsification of any book or document affecting or relating to that person’s property or affairs, unless the jury is satisfied that that person had no intent to conceal the state of that person’s affairs or to defeat the Law.
either before or after the presentment of the petition, that person made or was privy to the making of any false entry in any book or document affecting or relating to that person’s property or affairs, unless the jury is satisfied that that person had no intent to conceal the state of that person’s affairs or to defeat the Law;
after the presentment of the petition, or within six months before such presentment, that person has parted with, altered or made omission in, or has been privy to parting with, altering or making any omission in, any document affecting or relating to that person’s property or affairs, unless the jury is satisfied that that person had no intent to defraud;
after or within six months before the presentment of the petition that person has attempted to account for any part of that person’s property by fictitious losses or expenses;
within six months before the presentment of the petition that person, by any false representation or other fraud, has obtained any property on credit, and has not paid for the same;
within six months before the presentment of the petition that person obtained, under the false pretence of carrying on business and dealing in the ordinary way of that person’s business, any property on credit, and has not paid for the same, unless the jury is satisfied that that person had no intent to defraud.
within six months before the presentment of the petition, that person has pawned, pledged or disposed of otherwise than in the ordinary way of that person’s business any property which that person had obtained on credit and had not paid for, unless the jury is satisfied that that person had no intent to defraud;
that person has committed any false representation or other fraud for the purpose of obtaining the consent of that person’s creditors, or any of them, to any agreement with reference to that person’s affairs, or that person’s bankruptcy or liquidation;
after or within six months before the presentment of the petition, that person has quitted the Islands and taken with themself, or attempted or made preparation for quitting the Islands and for taking with that person any part of that person’s property to the amount of forty dollars or upwards, which would, by law, be divisible amongst that person’s creditors under the bankruptcy, unless the jury is satisfied that that person had no intent to defraud;
in incurring any debt or liability, that person has obtained credit under false pretences, or by means of any other fraud;
that person has, with intent to defraud that person’s creditors, or any of them, made or caused to be made any gift, delivery or transfer of, or any charge on, that person’s property; or
that person has, with intent to defraud that person’s creditors, concealed or removed any part of that person’s property since, or within two months before, the date of any unsatisfied judgment or order for payment of money obtained against that person.