Section 257Part 9 — Offences Relating to Property
False statements by company directors, etc.
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257. (1) A person who, being an officer of a body corporate or unincorporated association (or person purporting to act as such), with intent to deceive members or creditors of the body corporate or association about its affairs, publishes or concurs in publishing a written statement or account which to that person’s knowledge is or may be misleading, false or deceptive in a material particular, commits an offence and is liable to imprisonment for seven years.
In this section a person who has entered into a security for the benefit of a body corporate or association is to be treated as a creditor of it.
Where the affairs of a body corporate or association are managed by its members, this section shall apply to any statement which a member publishes or concurs in publishing in connection with that member’s functions of management as if that member were an officer of the body corporate or association.