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(c) if he engages in any trade or business under a name or names other than that or those under which he was adjudicated bankrupt without first publishing, once in the Gazette, and in three successive issues of two local newspapers, one of which shall be Chinese, a uotice containing the following particulars:- (i) the name or names under which he

was adjudicated bankrupt, and

(ii) the last address at which he carried on any trade or business prior to the adjudication;

(iii) the name or names under which he intends to carry on the trade or busi- ness,

(iv) the nature of the trade or business which he intends to carry on, and

(v) the address or addresses at which he

intends to carry it on.

134. Any person who has been adjudged bankrupt Frauds by or in respect of whose estate a receiving order has bankrupts, been made shall in each of the cases following be etc., guilty of a misdemeanour :-

(a) if in incurring any debt or liability he has obtained credit under false pretences or by means of any other fraud; or

(b) if with intent to defraud his creditors or any of them, he has made or caused to be made any gift or transfer of, or charge on, his pro- perty; or

(c) if with intent to defraud his creditors, he has concealed or removed any part of his property since, or within two months before, the date of any unsatisfied judgment or order for pay- ment of money obtained against him; or

4 & 5 Geo. 5, c. 59, s. 156.

(d) if with intent to defraud his creditors or any 16 & 17 Geo. of them, he has caused or connived at the 5, c. 7, s. 6. levying of any execution against his property.

&c.

135.-(1) Any person who has been adjudged Bankrupt bankrupt, or in respect of whose estate a receiving guilty of order has been made, shall be guilty of a mis- gambling, demeanour, if, having been engaged in any trade or 4 & 5 Geo. 5, business, and having outstanding at the date of the c. 59, receiving order any debts contracted in the course and s. 157 (1). for the purposes of such trade or business,-

(a) he has, within two years prior to the pre- sentation of the bankruptcy petition, mater- ially contributed to or increased the extent of his insolvency by gambling or by rash and hazardous speculations, and such gambling or speculations are unconnected with his trade or business; or

(b) he has, between the date of the presentation of the petition and the date of the receiving order, lost any part of his estate by such gambling or rash and hazardous speculations as aforesaid; or

(c) on being required by the Official Receiver at any time, or in the course of his public ex- amination by the court, to account for the loss of any substantial part of his estate in- curred within a period of a year next preced- ing the date of the presentation of the bank- ruptcy petition, or between that date and the date of the receiving order, he fails to give a satisfactory explanation of the manner in which such loss was incurred:

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