Bankruptcy Act · 2021 Revised Edition · Part · Bankruptcy Offences
130. Certain offences by persons other than debtor
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
If any manager, accountant or book-keeper in the employment of the debtor does any act which if committed by the debtor would be a contravention of any of the provisions of section 129(l)(i) or 129(1)0), or is privy to any such act whether committed by the debtor or by any other person, such manager, accountant or book-keeper is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to imprisonment for 2 years.
Where any person pawns, pledges or disposes of any property in circumstances which amount to an offence contrary to the provisions of section 129(1)(0), 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, is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to imprisonment for 2 years.
property
"property" includes money, goods, things in action, land and every description of property, whether real or personal and whether situate in Brunei Darussalam or elsewhere, also obligations, easements and every description of estate, interest and profit, present or future, vested or contingent, arising out of or incident to property as above defined;
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Any undischarged bankrupt shall -
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;
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
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
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successive issues of a local newspaper, a notice containing the following particulars -
the name or names under which he was adjudicated bankrupt;
the last address at which he carried on any trade or business prior to the adjudication;
the name or names under which he intends to carry on the trade or business;
the nature of the trade or business which he intends to carry on; and
the address or addresses at which he intends to carry it on, is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to imprisonment for 2 years.
Terms defined in s 2
property
Defined · s 2"property" includes money, goods, things in action, land and every description of property, whether real or personal and whether situate in Brunei Darussalam or elsewhere, also obligations, easements and every description of estate, interest and profit, present or future, vested or contingent, arising out of or incident to property as above defined;