1986 Ed.]
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(2) Where any person pawns, pledges or disposes of any property in circumstances which amount to a misdemeanor under section 129(1)(o), every person who takes in pawn or pledge or otherwise receives the property, knowing it to be pawned, pledged or disposed of in such circumstances as aforesaid, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for 1 year or upon conviction on indictment to imprisonment for 5 years. (Amended, 33 of 1939, Supp. Schedule, G.N. 840/40)
131. Any undischarged bankrupt shall in each of the cases following be guilty of a misdemeanor-
(a) if either alone or jointly with any other person he obtains credit to the extent of $100 or upwards from any person without first informing that person that he is an undischarged bankrupt; or
(b) if he engages in any trade or business under a name or names other than that or those under which he was adjudicated bankrupt and in the course of such trade or business obtains credit from any person without first disclosing to such person the name or names under which he was adjudicated bankrupt; or
(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 3 successive issues of 2 local newspapers one of which shall be Chinese, a notice containing the following particulars--
(i) the name or names under which he was adjudicated bankrupt;
(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 business;
(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.
(Amended, 33 of 1939, Supp. Schedule, G.N. 840/40 and 20 of 1948, s. 4)
132. Any person who has been adjudged bankrupt or in respect of whose estate a receiving order has been made shall in each of the cases following be guilty of a misdemeanor-
(a) [Deleted, 21 of 1970, s. 35]
(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 property; or
1926 c. 7, s. 5(2).
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Undischarged bankrupt obtaining credit.
1914 c. 59, s. 155.
Frauds by bankrupts, etc. 1914 c. 59, s. 156.