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Section 127, The Bankruptcy Act, 2009
Status not yet checkedThe Bankruptcy Act, 2009, Sierra Leone
Any person who has been adjudged bankrupt or in respectof whose estate a receiving order has been made, in each of the
following cases commits an offence if:-
(a) in incurring any debt or liability he obtains
credit under false pretences, or by means of
any other fraud;
(b) with intent to defraud his creditors or any of
them he makes or causes to be made any gift
or transfer of or charge on his property;
(c) with intent to defraud his creditors he
conceals or removes any part of his property
since or within two months before the date
of any unsatisfied judgment or order for
payment of money obtained against him; or
(d) with intent to defraud his creditors or any of
them he causes or connives at the levying of
any execution against his property,
and shall on conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding Le20,000,000
or to a term of imprisonment not exceeding one year or to both the
fine and imprisonment.
Undischarged
bankrupt
obtaining
credit.
Fraud by
bankrupt etc.
80 81
Certain
offences by
person other
than debtor.
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