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trade or business has involved dealings in goous, statements of the annual stocktakings and (except in the case of goods sold by way of ordinary retail trade) of all goods sold and purchased, showing the goods and the buyers and sellers thereof in sufficient detail to enable those goods and those buyers and sellerg to be identified.
Responsibility 261.-(1) If in the course of the winding up of a company it appears that any business of the company has been carried on with intent to defraud creditors of the company or creditors of any other person or for any fraudulent purpose, the court, on the applica- tion of the official receiver, or the liquidator or any creditor or contributory of the company, may, if it thinks proper so to do, declare that any of the directors, whether past or present, of the company who were knowingly parties to the carrying on of the business in manner aforesaid shail he personally responsible; without any limitation of liability, for all or any of the debts or other liabilities of the company as the court may direct.
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(2) Where the court makes any such declaration, it may give such further directions as it thinks proper for the purpose of giving effect to that declaration, and in particular may make provision for making the liability of any such director under the declaration a charge on any debt or obligation due from the company to him, or on any mortgage or charge or any interest in any mortgage or charge on any assets of the company held by or vested in him, or any company or person on his behalf, or any person claiming as assignee from or through the director, company or person, and may from time to time make such further order as may be necessary for the purpose of enforcing any charge imposed under this subsection.
For the purpose of this subsection, the expression "assignee' includes any person to whom or in whose favour, by the directions of the director, the debt, obligation, mortgage or charge was created, issued or transferred or the interest created, but does not in- clude an assignee for valuable consideration (not including consideration by way of marriage) given in good faith and without notice of any of the matters on the ground of which the declaration is made.
(3) Where any business of a company is carried on with such intent or for such purpose as is mentioned in subsection (1) of this section, every director of the company who was knowingly a party to the carrying on of the business in manner aforesaid, shall be liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year.
(4) The court may, in the case of any person in respect of whom a declaration has been made under subsection (1) of this section, or who has been con- victed of an offence under subsection (3) of this section, order that that person shall not, without the leave of the court, be a director of or in any way. whether directly or indirectly be concerned in эт take part in the management of a company for such period, not exceeding five years, from the date of the declaration or of the conviction, as the case may he, as may be specified in the order, and if any person acts in contravention of an order made under this subsection he shall, in respect of each offence. be liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars. or to both such imprisonment and fine.
In this subsection the expression "the court” in relation to the making of an order, means the court
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