Penalty for certain offences committed by a person against whom receiving order is made

Any person against whom a receiving order in bankruptcy has been made shall be guilty of a misdemeanour and shall be liable, on conviction, to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years, where, whom a made. (1) he does not to the best of his knowledge and belief fully and truly discover to the trustee administering his estate for the benefit of his creditors all his property, real and personal, and how, and to whom, and for what consideration, and when, he disposed of any part of his property except such part as has been disposed of in the ordinary way of his trade (if any) or laid out in the ordinary expense of his family, unless the jury is satisfied that he had no intent to defraud; (2) he does not deliver up to such trustee or as he directs all such part of his real and personal property as is in his custody or under his control, and which he is required by law to deliver up, unless the jury is satisfied that he had no intent to defraud; (3) he does not deliver up to such trustee or as he directs all books, documents, papers and writings, in his custody or under his control, relating to his property or affairs, unless the jury is satisfied that he had no intent to defraud; (4) after the presentation of a bankruptcy petition by or against him, or within six months next before such presentation, he conceals or removes any part of his property to the value of fifty dollars or upwards, or conceals any debt due to or from him, unless the jury is satisfied that he had no intent to defraud; (5) he makes any material omission in any statement required under this Act, relating to his affairs, unless the jury is satisfied that he had no intent to defraud; 82 (6) knowing or believing that a false debt has been proved by any person under the bankruptcy proceedings, he fails for the period of a month to inform the trustee thereof, unless the jury is satisfied that he had no intent to defraud; (7) after the presentation of a bankruptcy petition by or against him, he prevents the production of any book, document, paper or writing, affecting or relating to his property or affairs, unless the jury is satisfied that he had no intent to conceal the state of his affairs or to defeat the law; (8) after the presentation of a bankruptcy petition by or against him or within six months next before such presentation, he conceals, destroys, mutilates, or falsifies, or is privy to the concealment, destruction, mutilation or falsification of any book or document affecting or relating to his property or affairs, unless the jury is satisfied that he had no intent to conceal the state of his affairs or to defeat the law; (9) after the presentation of a bankruptcy petition by or against him or within a period of six months next before such presentation he makes, or is privy to the making of any false entry in any book or documents affecting or relating to his property or affairs, unless the jury is satisfied that he had no intent to conceal the state of his affairs or to defeat the law; (10) after the presentation of a bankruptcy petition by or against him or within six months next before such presentation, he parts with, alters or makes any omission in, or is privy to the parting with, altering, or making any omission in, any document affecting or relating to his property or affairs, unless the jury is satisfied that he had no intent to defraud; (11) after the presentation of a bankruptcy petition by or against him or at any meeting of his creditors within six months next before such presentation he attempts to account for any part of his property by fictitious losses or expenses; 83 (12) within six months next before the presentation of a bankruptcy petition by or against him he by any false representation or other fraud obtains any property on credit, and has not paid for the same; (13) within six months next before the presentation of a bankruptcy petition by or against him he obtains under the false pretence of carrying on business and dealing in the ordinary way of his business any property on credit, and has not paid for the same, unless the jury is satisfied that he had no intent to defraud; (14) within six months next before the presentation of a bankruptcy petition by or against him he pawns, pledges, or disposes of otherwise than in the ordinary way of his business any property which he has obtained on credit and has not paid for, unless the jury is satisfied that he had no intent to defraud; (15) he is guilty of any false representation or other fraud for the purpose of obtaining the consent of his creditors, or any of them, to any agreement with reference to his affairs, or his (16) after the presentation of a bankruptcy petition by or against him or within a period of six months next before such presentation he quits Belize and takes with him, or attempts or makes preparation for quitting Belize and for taking with him, any part of his property to the amount of one hundred dollars or upwards, which would by law be divisible amongst his creditors under the bankruptcy, unless the jury is satisfied that he had no intent to defraud.