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(h) after the commencement of the winding up prevents the production of any book or paper affecting or relating to the property or affairs of the company; or

(1) within twelve months next before the com- mencement of the winding up or at any time thereafter, conceals, destroys, mutilates, or falsifies, or is privy to the concealment, destruction, mutilation, or falsification of, any book or paper affecting or relating to the property or affairs of the company; or

() within twelve months next before the com- mencement of the winding up or at any time thereafter makes or is privy to the making of any false entry in any book or paper affecting or relating to

the property affairs of the company; or

or

(k) within twelve months next before the com- mencement of the winding up or at any time thereafter fraudulently parts with, alters, or makes any omission in, or is privy to the fraudulent parting with, altering, or making any omission in, any document affecting or relating to the property or affairs of the company; or

(1) after the commencement of the winding up or at any niceting of the creditors of the com- pany within twelve months next before the commencement of the winding up attempts to account for any part of the property of the company by fictitious losses or expenses; or (m) has within twelve months next before the commencement of the winding up or at any time thereafter, by any false representation or other fraud, obtained any property for or on behalf of the company on credit which the company does not subsequently pay for; or (n) within twelve months next before the com- mencement of the winding up or at any time thereafter, under the false pretence that the company is carrying on its business, obtains on credit, for or on behalf of the company, any property which the company does not subsequently pay for; or

(0) within twelve months next before the com- mencement of the winding up or at any time thereafter pawns, pledges, or disposes of any property of the company which has been obtained on credit and has not been paid for, unless such pawning, pledging, or disposing is in the ordinary way of the business of the company; or

(p) is guilty of any false representation or other fraud for the purpose of obtaining the consent of the creditors of the company or any of them to an agreement with reference to the affairs of the company or to the winding up; he shall be guilty of a misdemeanour and shall, in the case of the offences mentioned respectively in paragraphs (m), (n) and (o) of this subsection, be liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years, or on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding twelve months, and in the case of any other offence shall 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 twelve months:

Provided that it shall be a good defence to a charge under any of paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (d), (f). (n) and (0), if the accused proves that he had no intent to defraud, and to a charge under any of para- graphs (h), (i) and (j), if he proves that he had no intent to conceal the state of affairs of the company or to defeat the law.

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